Solutions Architect, Studios Tech Emerging Technology

Amazon • Culver City, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Prime Video is looking for a Solutions Architect to join their R&D team. This role will directly impact how millions of people discover and enjoy content, while helping shape the future of media technology. The R&D team drives innovation and introduces new concepts or technologies into the production and post-technology domain through research, experimentation, and prototyping. They develop viable products and workflows, and also improve existing production technology workflows and offerings to make them more efficient, cost-effective, and accessible. The team's insights and proposals help shape the strategic direction of how new technologies are infused into the production lifecycle.

Requirements

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers
• Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures

Responsibilities

• Partner with internal Studios teams, AWS, and 3rd party vendors to develop and deploy pilot programs.
• Design, develop, and deploy scalable, cost-effective solutions to optimize production processes.
• Represent the Emerging Technology team and evangelize our vision both internally and externally.
• Research partner solutions and demo products.
• Develop new workflows using resources in Studio Technology Lab.
• Partner with Studio in the Cloud stakeholders to verify assumptions.
• Experiment and test researched workflows and technology.

Benefits

• health insurance (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
• Education Level: No Education Listed