Snr Cloud Architect - AWS Industries, Professional Services
DESCRIPTION
Our AWS Professional Services consultants deliver IT infrastructure and application
architecture guidance, lead proof-of-concept projects, perform enterprise portfolio
assessments, review operational best practices and conduct skills transfer
workshops. AWS consultants collaborate with customers and partners to address
security and compliance, performance and scale, availability and manageability. They
advise customers on migrating existing systems and building new systems using the
full range of AWS services. They also assist with the non-technical change
management work on policies, processes and people changes.
At AWS, we’re looking for technical architects to collaborate with our customers
and partners on key engagements, while helping our partners to develop technical
expertise and capacity. The individual requires a strong combination of technical
experience, hands-on keyboard capacity, technical leadership experience, and ability
to learn fast in a fast paced environment. They will focus on customer solutions that
spans across multiple domains such as cloud infrastructure, modern microservices
and applications, enterprise application migrations, HPC amongst many others.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience
- 5+ years of software development with object oriented language experience
- 3+ years of cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with stakeholders
- Track record of implementing distributed systems using AWS services
- Experience with architecting, designing, and developing cloud native applications and microservices in AWS Cloud environment
- Experience managing microservices and distributed system platforms end-to-end Experience on developing with containers, Kubernetes, serverless, or relevant application frameworks
- Experience with emergent technologies will be highly favorable, such as High Performance Computing (HPC), Internet of Things (IoT), AI/ML
- Hands on familiarity with popular Infrastructure-as-Code platforms such as AWS CDK or Terraform
- Comfortable with one or more popular full stack programming languages such as Java, Golang, Typescript or Python
- Strong application development experience on Linux and/or Windows based systems
- Experience leading certification or accreditation of cloud workload(s) to meet regulatory or industry standards such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO26262 Amazon