Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers, WWPS, US Federal, US Federal Specialist Solutions Architect

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AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) is seeking an AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) for Container Services. An AWS SA Specialist are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. You will provide technical expertise to help grow the adoption of a portfolio of services that includes Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Amazon Elastic Container Registry and AWS App Mesh. As a part of this team you will have the opportunity to help shape the future of the container industry. SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable flexible and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems.

Candidates for this role will have a passion for solving business challenges through cloud technology. As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) for Container Services you will work with U.S. Federal customers to develop bespoke solutions using the AWS Container Services along with the use of Amazons utility computing web services (e.g. AWS EC2 AWS S3 AWS RDS HPC and AWS CloudFront) directly with customers and our ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers. These customers face unique challenges in accomplishing complex missions with limited resources while trying to serve citizens more effectively and accelerate innovation and digital transformation.

Key job responsibilities
Your broad responsibilities will include:
-Helping U.S. Federal Civilian Government organizations implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems.
-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.
-Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
-Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers largest and most critical business challenges.
-Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs whitepapers reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit AWS re:Invent etc.
-Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.

A day in the life
The Solutions Architects on our team provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to the Federal Government. They lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solution architect community. You get to learn from collaborate with and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture. The typical day might include meeting with customers collaborating with AWS technical product managers working with others to build and test demonstrations and proofs of concept and writing technical content such as blog posts and papers.

About the team
The US Federal Specialist Solutions Architecture Team consists of Security Networking Hybrid Edge GEN AI Containers and GovCloud Specialist Solutions Architects located across the US. This team is vertically aligned and supports the US Federal customer base consisting of some of the largest most complex AWS customers. The team operates on key tenets including being domain experts who provide thought leadership with deep AWS expertise taking ownership of specialist engagements maintaining contextual knowledge scaling through reusable assets gathering customer feedback and maintaining alignment with the broader AWS community.

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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
- 4 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- Current active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

- 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
- Intermediate/advanced knowledge of the AWS services.
- 5 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- 5 years of experience designing implementing and managing Kubernetes environments at scale
- Proven experience architecting containerized applications and microservices architectures
- Strong background in DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline implementation using Kubernetes
- Experience managing multiple Kubernetes clusters
- Demonstrated expertise in Kubernetes security networking and storage concepts
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform Helm) for Kubernetes deployments
- Experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems and container-based applications
- Experience within the Federal Government.
- Understanding of infrastructure and security requirements such as FedRAMP Moderate/High HIPAA DoD SRG CJIS etc.

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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.