Amazon

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Join Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect and be at the forefront of driving transformative change. We are seeking a senior professional with a deep understanding of cloud native technologies and services and their potential to help customers in migration and modernization projects to the Cloud with AWS Container services.

As part of the Specialist Solution Architect team, you will focusing on modernization services for Container technology. This expert will collaborate with a diverse group of experts passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology. Our team is dedicated to fostering an environment of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. Together, we aim to shape the future of cloud computing, making a significant impact on how Containers are managed and utilized by our customers for great variety of use cases. As member of the global AWS tech community, you will continuously educate yourself on our latest technology and specialize deeply in the Modernization services portfolio.

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.

Key job responsibilities

As a key member of the AWS Specialist Solutions Architecture team your work will include:

• Working closely with our product and field teams, you will help enable new capabilities for our customers to develop and deploy Container based services on AWS infrastructure
• Design best in class Container infrastructure solutions for all stages of customer and product lifecycles.
• You will have the technical depth and business experience to deploy container strategies.
• Partner with SAs, Sales, Business Development and Service teams to accelerate customer adoption and revenue attainment.
• You will also work closely with account teams, research scientists, and product teams to drive model implementations and new solutions.
• Thought Leadership - Evangelize and share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers and the AWS teams to provide customer driven product improvement feedback.
• Develop and support an AWS internal community of related subject matter experts.

A day in the life

In this role, you will immerse yourself in the dynamic world of cloud architecture, working closely with customers to design, scalable, and secure cloud modernization solutions. Your day will be filled with engaging challenges, from conducting technical deep-dives and workshops to presenting innovative solutions and proof of concept implementations to C-level executives’ presentations. You will be at the heart of AWS's mission to empower customers business with the best in cloud technology, ensuring they use scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient architectures by working with Solution Architects, account teams and other AWS services teams.

About the team

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.

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

• Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• Associate's degree or above
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
• 3+ years of experience in designing architectures, implementation experience and workload migrations to the Cloud in migration and modernization services (Kubernetes, Container services)

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