Technical Account Manager, National Security, National Security ES US-ADC, AWS Support ADC VAR

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization we have a vision to provide business applications leveraging Amazons unique experience and expertise that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazons real-world experience to build opinionated turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Would you like to join one of the fastest-growing organizations within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and help customers of all industries and sizes gain the best value and service from AWS At AWS Enterprise Support were looking for a Technical Account Manager (TAM) to support our customers creative and transformative spirit of innovation across all technologies including Compute Storage Database Machine Learning AI Big Data Security Networking Serverless and more. This is not a sales role but rather an opportunity to be the strategic technical advisor and voice of the customer to National Security customers.

As a TAM you will help craft and execute strategies to drive our customers adoption and use of AWS services including EC2 S3 DynamoDB & RDS databases Lambda SageMaker ECS/EKS GuardDuty Systems Manager CodePipeline IoT and many more. Your technical acumen and customer-facing skills will enable you to effectively represent AWS within a customers environment and drive discussions with senior leadership regarding incidents trade-offs support and risk management.

You will provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices and proactively keep your customers AWS environments operationally healthy. The close relationships developed with your customers will allow you to understand their business and operational needs and technical challenges and help them achieve the greatest value from AWS. This position will require the ability to travel 10% or more as needed.

The TAM is the centerpiece of value to our National Security customers. If you wish to be at the forefront of innovation come join us!

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

Key job responsibilities
-Serve as the principal technical advisor for National Security customers providing proactive guidance on AWS best practices across architecture operations and security

-Craft and execute strategies to drive customer adoption and optimization of AWS services

-Drive discussions with senior customer leadership regarding incidents trade-offs risk management and operational health

-Proactively monitor and maintain the operational health of customer AWS environments identifying risks before they become issues

-Build deep trusted relationships with customer technical teams and leadership to understand their business needs and deliver tailored solutions

-Advocate internally on behalf of customers acting as the voice of the customer to AWS service and support teams

-Collaborate with AWS Solutions Architects Support Engineers and Service Teams to resolve complex technical challenges

A day in the life
On a typical day you may start with a proactive operational review of your customers AWS environments identifying trends or risks that need attention. You might then lead a technical deep dive with a customers engineering team on optimizing their architecture followed by a strategic planning session with senior customer leadership on upcoming migration or modernization initiatives. Between customer engagements youll collaborate with internal AWS teams Solutions Architects Support Engineers and Service Teams to drive resolution on open issues and advocate for your customers needs. No two days are the same: one day you may be guiding a customer through a critical event and the next you may be presenting a Well-Architected review to help them strengthen their cloud posture.

About the team
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- Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent or 2 years of technical work experience
- 2 years of technical engineering experience
- Experience informational technology operations
- Experience building strategic relationships with stakeholders including communicating and collaborating across teams and functions
- Experience in external enterprise customer-facing role as a technical lead with strong oral and written communication skills presenting to both large and small audiences
- Current active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

- Experience in internal enterprise or external customer-facing environment as a technical lead
- 5 years of communicating with and presenting to executive and senior audiences experience
- Experience with development in a distributed systems environment
- Experience with mission-critical 24x7 operations
- Experience with AWS or cloud technologies
- Experience troubleshooting problems and offering solutions to streamline complex challenges or experience working with stakeholders
- Experience with AWS services and/or other cloud offerings Federal/DoD Clearances
- Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars and ability to properly apply them to existing or new customer architecture implementations and/or solutions

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 VA Arlington - 131300.00 - 177600.00 USD annually
USA VA Herndon - 131300.00 - 177600.00 USD annually