Solutions Architect- VA

Amazon • Seattle, WA

52d

About The Position

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers
of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every
customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and
unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique
challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This
customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us
and help us grow.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists
who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills.
You will cooperate with some of the world’s largest companies, AWS Account
Management and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and
resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and
accelerate the adoption of AWS services. In collaboration with account
management, you will drive cloud adoption across your assigned customers. As a
trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations
understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to
migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help
and support to build mind share and broad use of AWS within enterprise
customers. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is
critical to a solutions architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability
to think proactively about business, products, and technical challenges.

Here are some other qualities we are looking for:

Be great fun to work with. At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make
history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to
make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any
challenge and make a big impact.

Enjoy working with customers. You will have a passion for educating, training,
designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of
enterprise customers.

Have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions. You will enjoy
keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can
make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly
take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class
solutions built on AWS.

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

Nice To Haves

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

Responsibilities

• As a key member of the business development and sales team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed