Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers, Startups, Startup WWSO

Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential Do you have the business savvy Containers background in the Startup space and sales skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses Join the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) Startup team as a GTM Specialist Solutions Architect!

The WWSO team helps customers adopt our newest and most advantageous technologies. We are technology specialists. The WWSO Startup team is a team dedicated to helping Startups scale quickly and cost-effectively on AWS. We want Startups to grow better when they choose AWS and we make it easier by recommending the right technologies and then by helping Startups get up and running quickly.
This position specifically is part of the WWSO Startup team where you will be a Specialist Solution Architect that helps Startups adopt AWS technologies with a focus on Amazons Container services among others. You will 1/Be the best storytellers and technologists 2/Work with the most promising Startups 3/Scale tech knowledge via products programs and the AWS Field and 4/Gather critical Startup feedback to inform our product roadmaps.





Key job responsibilities
* Interact at the CxO/VP level as well as with developers and technical architects to ease adoption develop pipeline secure lighthouse customers drive top-line revenue and explore strategic partnerships.
* Become a trusted advisor within customer accounts through Technical Thought Leadership.
* Develop and deploy programs that leverage AWS Field Solution Architect teams as well as technology and consulting partner channels.
* Deployment and operations of workloads on AWS using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) AWS Fargate Kubernetes or others.
* Collaborate with AWS Product and Technical teams to create solutions that solve customer problems including reference architectures patterns automation and release plan.
* Guide and Support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts aligned to your domains. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population to help them understand how to integrate new AWS solutions into customer architectures.

About the team
This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy recruiting development and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

Why AWS
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Work/Life Balance
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship and Career Growth
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- 7 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 5 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- Bachelors degree
- 5 years management of technical customer facing resources
- 5 years of technical experience in cloud native applications and/or container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes ECS EKS Fargate Docker Mesos and others.

- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives IT management and developers
- Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
- Experience in a fast-paced high-tech company or experience completing complex tasks quickly with little to no guidance and react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick turnaround
- Advanced degree in computer science computer engineering or related field
- Startup background and experience at a VC or PE-backed firm in a Technical Executive capacity.
- Familiarity with open-source software used by Startups and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies common to Startups.
- Proficiency with design deployment and evaluation of LLM-powered agents and tools and orchestration approaches.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239000/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.