Solutions Architect III - AMZ9759611

Amazon • Denver, CO

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This role serves as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support. The Solutions Architect III will analyze application portfolios, identify dependencies and common infrastructure platform components, and assess migration feasibility. The position involves architecting hybrid AWS and on-premises solutions, guiding customers on architecture choices, and informing them of best practices for efficient and cost-effective AWS adoption. The role ensures success in building, migrating, and deploying applications, software, and services on the AWS platform. Responsibilities include briefing senior executive teams on customer progress in adopting AWS, defining future platform requirements for onboarding and migration to AWS, and authoring AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers. The Solutions Architect III will also share best-practice knowledge within the AWS solutions architect community and engage with a variety of stakeholders, including developers, system administrators, software architects, project managers, directors, and C-level customers, to define cloud strategies and deployments. A key aspect of the role is educating customers on the value proposition of AWS and ensuring that solutions are designed for successful deployment on AWS.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupations of Network Administrator, Support Engineer, Systems Engineer or another related occupation.
• Five years of experience in designing, implementing, and consulting with distributed applications.
• Five years of experience in architecting, provisioning, and deploying applications to public cloud environments or on-premises virtualized environments.
• Five years of domain-specific experience with web performance, media distribution, media processing, and application protection.
• Five years of experience in performance tuning, prototyping, and troubleshooting.

Nice To Haves

• Please see job description and the position requirements above.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.
• Analyze application portfolios, identify dependencies and common infrastructure platform components, and access migration feasibility.
• Architect hybrid AWS and on-premises solutions.
• Guide customers on architecture choices and inform them of the best practices to adopt AWS efficiently and cost-effectively.
• Ensure success in building, migrating, and deploying applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
• Brief senior executive team on customer progress of adopting the AWS and define future platform requirement for on-boarding and migration to AWS.
• Author AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers.
• Share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community.
• Engage with developers, system administrators, software architects, project manager, directors, and C-level customers to define cloud strategies and deployments.
• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and ensure that solutions are designed for successful deployment on AWS.

Benefits

• equity
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
• EAP
• Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior