Associate Cloud Consultant, Application Development, AWS Professional Services, National Security

Amazon • Annapolis Junction, MD

399d • $88,400 - $192,600

About The Position

The Associate Cloud Consultant role at Amazon Web Services (AWS) focuses on helping customers architect, develop, and re-engineer applications to leverage the AWS Cloud. This position is ideal for developers with hands-on experience in building cloud-native applications and offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects in a dynamic environment. The role involves significant travel and collaboration with enterprise customers, providing a platform for career growth within AWS Professional Services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field with a conferral date within May 2023 to May 2025.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience programming in languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, Node.js, or similar object-oriented language.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to Agile development methodologies.
• 1+ years of software development or application engineering with recent coding experience in modern programming languages such as Java, JavaScript (Node.js, Angular, JQuery, etc.), Python, Amplify, React, Typescript, Bash, Powershell, Lambda, C/C++, C#.
• Experience with source control repositories (e.g. GitHub/GitLab, SVN, Mercurial, and Perforce).
• Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, and Team City.
• Exposure to APIs, microservices, and distributed application architectures.
• Experience with AWS CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Saltstack, or Ansible in production environments.
• Experience with networking services, such as VPNs, DNS, load balancers, and firewalls.
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools, such as AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic, and Splunk.
• Experience with software development automated testing practices.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Help customers architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services.
• Architect and develop customer applications to be cloud optimized.
• Work as a technical specialist alongside customer business, development, and infrastructure teams.
• Provide deep software development knowledge with respect to cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming.
• Advise and implement AWS best practices.
• Work as both an infrastructure and application development specialist.
• Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on market location and job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation package.
• Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree