Cloud Application Architect, AWS Professional Services
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.
About the team
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services is a global team of cloud experts helping our customers succeed, no matter what type of work they do. We’re a passionate group of strategic thinkers who anticipate our customers’ needs so we can deliver the right technologies and services at scale. It’s our customer-first mindset that allows us to build and innovate a new future in the cloud.
Diverse Experiences
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, 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.
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.
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 and 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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- BS level technical degree or equivalent experience (Computer Science or Engineering background);
- 5+ years of experience on large scale software development or application engineering with recent coding exposure to two or more of the following languages: Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Swift, Node.js, Python, Go, or Ruby;
- 4+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-Facing roles;
- Experience architecting, designing and programming applications in a Cloud Environments, with serverless and containers.
- Ability to communicate in English and Spanish or Portuguese, in technical and business settings (verbal and written).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in Refactoring, Re-writing and Decoupling applications;
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD);
- Experience architecting high available, secure and reliable systems.
- Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible) and hands on familiarity with Infra as a code;