Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Solutions Architect with strong software engineering skills and a passion for architecting building and developing tooling and solutions to show customers the art of the possible. You will be part of an agile team of innovative practitioners who are obsessed with understanding the needs of our customers and our partners as they build workloads on AWS. The ideal candidate should have the skills to partner with customers partners and internal stakeholders to experiment with new ideas that can help customers measure their adherence to AWS-recommended best practices and balance architectural trade-offs with business priorities and goals.
In this role you will use your software development skills to develop prototypes using Machine Learning Deep Learning Generative IA and Serverless Architectures. You will apply software engineering best practices that ensures the prototypes provide a foundation to production solutions. We will provide a creative environment where high judgement failure is embraced so you can move fast without compromising on research time that is required to experiment with new ideas.
Here are some other qualities were looking for:
- At AWS we have a credo of Work hard. Have fun. Make history. In this role you will love what you do and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative and willing to take on any challenge and be eager to make a big impact.
- You are intellectually curious and enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed while developing new ones so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.
- You have an area of focus where you are a subject matter expert such as AWS Well-Architected AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning extending through understanding and teaching operational best practices.
- You enjoy collaborating with people even outside the technical team to deep dive into customer problems and find the best solutions for our customers.
AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services is responsible for driving adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
Key job responsibilities
- Architect develop test and implement tooling that helps customers measure their workloads against best practice drives them to make informed architectural trade-offs and highlights key areas to help them be successful.
- Research and employ up-to-date technological developments in customer engagements.
- Drive the AWS platform by aligning customer requirements with AWS service teams roadmaps.
- This role will focus on investing in the long term success of customers using foundations and best practices from AWS Well-Architected and Cloud Adoption Framework AWS for research development and innovation.
- Author or contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as white-papers tutorials blogs workshops etc.
- Position requires travel generally up to 25%.
A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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- 4 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 4 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- 4 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Experience with scripting (e.g. Python PowerShell)
- Knowledge of AWS services
- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $204300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.