AMS Cloud Architect II, AWS Managed Services (AMS)

AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. To get there we build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions. We create end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box making complex things easy and hard things possible with no cloud experience required. We start with customers who embrace the future and build bridges to meet the rest where they are. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction and we are looking for builders who share that mindset.

Amazon is continuously striving to be the most customer-centric company in the world. AWS has been helping over one million customers in over 190 countries from Airbnb to GE to deliver flexibility scalability and reliability across their organizations. Behind this success is exceptionally talented bright and driven individuals who work hard have fun and make your role you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazons utility computing web services within strategic Enterprise accounts. You will represent AWS in face-to-face meetings and own the overall technical relationship between AWS and the customer.

This role will engage with enterprise customers across a broad range of industry verticals including Travel and Transportation Tourism and Leisure Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare and Business Services. Technology trends in these verticals include IoT Big Data Analytics AI/ML Serverless and traditional cloud migrations of compute storage and associated applications. The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate: Deep technical skill in infrastructure software architecture and cloud computing Customer facing skills ideally gained in presales or consultancy roles allowing them to represent AWS in discussions with senior personnel Demonstrated ability to think strategically about solutions to business product and technical challenges. Awareness of technology trends and how they impact the way businesses consume IT This position requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.

Key job responsibilities
Support the AWS Business development team to help formulate a strategy to help the adoption of AWS within the focus industry verticals. Guide customers to ensure success in building and migrating applications software and services following the principles of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Help educate enterprise customers on the value proposition of AWS and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud. Help provide one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS. Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS Applied AI Solutions architecture community. Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as blogs and whitepapers. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates. Act as a technical liaison between customers service engineering teams and support.

About the team
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

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- Knowledge of the primary aws services (ec2 elb rds route53 & s3)
- Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments

- 5 years of IT implementation experience
- Experience and technical expertise (design and implementation) in cloud computing technologies
- Experience leading the design development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure network compute storage and virtualization experience

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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at TX Dallas - 131300.00 - 177600.00 USD annually
USA VA Herndon - 131300.00 - 177600.00 USD annually