Sr. Solutions Architect - Microsoft Specialist
DESCRIPTION
Do you like helping customers design and deploy creative and innovative cloud computing solutions to solve complex business problems? Would you like to do this using Microsoft software running on the latest AWS cloud computing services? Do you have the consultative and leadership skills to help customers succeed with their cloud efforts?
Amazon Web Services is looking for a Solutions Architect to help customers accelerate their adoption of Microsoft workloads on AWS. This is an excellent opportunity to help customers understand best practices for Microsoft technologies on AWS, migrate their existing workloads, and advise them on building resilient cloud architectures. This role also provides opportunities to influence the future direction of AWS in terms of our support for Microsoft workloads.
Key job responsibilities
As a Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, you are at the leading edge of technology in your area of expertise and called upon by others in our Sales, Solutions Architecture or technical support teams to provide expert guidance to our customers. AWS Specialist Solutions Architects are typically called upon to work with our largest customers on their most technically challenging problems and you will need to be comfortable working with customer stakeholders across multiple areas of business and technology within organizationally complex structures.
In terms of direct customer engagement, you will own the technical engagement as it relates to their use of Microsoft software running on AWS and are responsible for ensuring that any guidance you provide is current, architecturally sound, secure, reliable, sustainable, and cost-efficient.
AWS Solutions Architects are also responsible for taking learnings from individual customer successes and scaling that knowledge more broadly through the publication of white-papers & reference architectures, or by building and presenting workshops or breakout sessions at public events such as AWS re:Invent.
A day in the life
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.
About the team
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, maths or related field
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 5+ years of specific Microsoft technology domain areas (e.g. AD, Exchange, SQL, Windows Server, Licensing, etc.) experience, 5+ years of customer facing experiences
- Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions for migration and modernization
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Experience migrating or modernizing legacy customer solutions based on Microsoft platform to the cloud
- 5+ years of technology/software sales experience
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Knowledge of cloud services, cloud native design and/or cloud implementation experience
- AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise