Solutions Architect, AWS WWPS Partners SA

Amazon.com, Inc. • Arlington, VA

49d

About The Position

AWS is looking for a cleared Solutions Architect to support our Global Systems Integrator partners and shape opportunities for our government customers. This role can be located in DC, NY. Please note: this position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance. On our Global Systems Integrator team, you will provide exceptional technical design, architecture, and thought leadership while working with a world class sales and business development team. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge with the AWS solution architect community and gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture. As a Solutions Architect, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services (e.g., Amazon Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon CloudFront) directly with our ecosystem of systems integrators, consulting and technology partners. Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects; defining implementation architectures, assisting partners respond to RFPs, developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies, as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform; and a subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services. Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work.We're dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. You should apply to this role if you are passionate about: Creating, building, educating, training and designing cloud computing architectures, especially if it's for Defense Department customers. Our company credo: "Work hard. Have fun. Make history." It's critical to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers. Deep-dive technical discussions around design and the curiosity to keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends

Requirements

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

Nice To Haves

• Experience in technology/software sales, pre-sales, or consulting
• AWS/Cloud knowledge is not needed, but preferred

Responsibilities

• owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects
• defining implementation architectures
• assisting partners respond to RFPs
• developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies, as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform
• subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services
• lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge with the AWS solution architect community

Benefits

• flexible schedule

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees