Do you like helping customers implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies Do you have a knack for helping groups understand application architectures and integration approaches and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success
Are you familiar with security best practices for applications servers and networks Do you want to be part of the business development team helping to establish Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading technology platform Would you like to be part of a sales group but have your opinion valued as a technical resource as part of planning and strategies
Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing Higher Education business as part of the World Wide Public Sector practice. As a Solutions Architect within AWS you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Amazons utility computing web services (e.g. AWS EC2 AWS S3 AWS RDS and AWS CloudFront) directly with customers and our ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers. Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects; defining implementation architectures responding to RFPs developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform; and being a subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services.
As a Solutions Architect on our team you will provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our academic customers while working with a world class sales and business development team. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community. You will gain the opportunity to learn from collaborate with and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about the following:
Helping our customers to design and create cloud computing architectures
Our company credo: Work hard. Have fun. Make history. Its critical to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers.
Deep-dive technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends.
We seek professionals experienced in the following key areas:
Technical presentation White boarding small and large group presentations.
Technical development Product and service development/deployment experience cloud computing
Operational abilities Cloud services operations management and security.
Ability to travel 30% on average yearly or more as needed to support customers and organizational initiatives.
About the team
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- 3 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 5 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- 5 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server load balancing HA/DR & storage architectures
- Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Intermediate/advanced knowledge of the AWS services
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