Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Professional Services
DESCRIPTION
Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use cloud computing to do big and innovative things? Would you like a career path that enables you to progress with the rapid adoption of cloud computing? Do you want to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption? Do you like to work in a variety of business environments, and high impact projects that use the newest cloud infrastructure and platform technologies?
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.
We are looking for highly talented hands-on technical consulting architects who can lead complex projects to help our customers accelerate their journey to the cloud. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s amazing technical teams. You will be working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.
Our consultants will collaborate with customers and partners on key engagements. You will work with the entire AWS organization to deliver proof-of-concept projects, perform enterprise portfolio assessments, review operational best practices, and conduct skills transfer workshops in areas such as, migrations, applications, operations, archiving, disaster recovery, and IT transformation.
This is a customer facing role. You could be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services as needed.
Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:
Work with customers and partners to understand their business target outcomes and use your business and technical skills to design and build architecture solutions, which is catalyst for the cloud journey. You will own and complete key tasks and deliverables, and collaborate with others to define and implement optimal, complete solutions based on stakeholders needs.
Collaborate across the entire AWS organization to develop trusted strategic relationships with customer key stakeholders.
You will own and complete key tasks and deliverables, and collaborate with others to define and implement optimal, complete solutions based on stakeholders needs.
You will work towards customer business outcomes, ensuring there is a strong connection between delivery activities and business objectives.
Work with AWS engineering teams to convey partner and enterprise customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps.
Collaborate with AWS field sales, technical sales, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS platform services.
Travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed
A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
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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
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About the team
Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of IT implementation experience
- Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
- Experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
- Experience with software development life cycle (sdlc) and agile/iterative methodologies
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field
- Experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles
- Customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
- Scripting and/or coding skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations. Fluency in English and native language (Spanish)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of the primary aws services (ec2, elb, rds, route53 & s3)
- Experience leading highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
- Experience in large scale migration- data center to data center or data center to cloud infrastructure
- Experience in automation through devops scripting (e.g. shell, python, ruby, powershell)
- Experience in linux and windows-based systems administration in a cloud or virtualized environment
- Experience in an Architect role or similar
- Experience managing data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications
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