Delivery Consultant - Database, AWS Professional Services, AWS Professional Services

Are you an experienced commercial or open-source database platform specialist Do you like to solve the most complex and high scale data challenges and help organizations understand and use cloud computing web services to do big new things faster at a lower cost The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Database Delivery Consultant to help customers implement database transformations and realize business opportunities. You will collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements and will develop and deliver proof-of- concept projects technical workshops and support implementation projects in order to migrate customer environments to AWS cloud based database platforms. Our professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions such as high volume mission critical OLTP/OLAP environments batch data processing designing and deploying future state petabyte-scale data warehouse service and building and/or designing reference configurations to enable our customers and influence AWS RDS Aurora DynamoDB and Redshift adoption. The databases team provides direct to customer back office and packaged delivery consulting services to customers remotely from a centralized location. Our consultants are builders and deliver projects technical workshops and lead implementation projects with customers around the globe. These professional services engagements focus on customer solutions such as web applications enterprise applications high performance computing batch processing big data archiving disaster recovery migration security risk and compliance.

Key job responsibilities
As an experienced technology professional you will be responsible for:
customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customers environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs standard methodologies project management and risk mitigation.
closely with AWS Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams to help ensure the success of project consulting engagements with customer.
directly with customers technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on the understood requirements.
strategically about business product and technical challenges in an enterprise environment
on-premises database environments such as Oracle SQL Server or other Commercial DB Engines to Open-Source Engines like Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL or RedShift DynamoDB.
with customers to migrate their database environments to AWS. This may include but is not limited to Re-Host database platform on AWS Upgrade/Optimize for AWS Re-Factor to open-source database platform on AWS.
for optimal design of database environments analyzing complex distributed production deployments and making recommendations to optimize performance.
innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems. This is a customer-facing role with potential travel to customer sites as needed.

About the team
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- Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or related field or equivalent practical experience
- 3 years of hands-on experience implementing AWS services (EC2 ELB RDS Route53 & S3) in distributed computing environments
- 3 years of hands-on experience administering at least one commercial relational database (Oracle SQL Server or IBM Db2) OR open-source database (MySQL PostgreSQL MariaDB)
- 2 years of hands-on experience implementing non-relational databases such as MongoDB CouchDB or Redis

- AWS experience preferred with proficiency in a wide range of AWS services (e.g. EC2 S3 RDS Lambda IAM VPC CloudFormation)
- AWS Professional level certifications (e.g. Solutions Architect Professional DevOps Engineer Professional) preferred
- Experience with automation and scripting (e.g. Terraform Python)
- Knowledge of security and compliance standards (e.g. HIPAA GDPR)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

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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.