Sr. Solutions Architect - AWS WWPS DOD, Joint DoD SA

Amazon • Herndon, VA

1d • $153,600 - $207,800

About The Position

This role involves helping U.S. Department of War organizations implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems using the latest cloud computing technologies. The Solutions Architect will assist these groups in understanding application architectures and integration approaches, and provide consultative skills to ensure project success. As part of the World Wide Public Sector practice, the role aims to accelerate the U.S. War Department business by shaping and delivering a strategy to build broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services (e.g., Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon CloudFront) with customers and system integrators. Key aspects include owning technical engagements, defining implementation architectures, contributing to RFI/RFP responses, developing deep expertise in AWS technologies, and acting as a subject matter expert on security for customer applications and services. The position requires providing thoughtful technical design, understanding customer needs for cloud computing, leading knowledge sharing within the AWS solution architect community, and collaborating with industry technical minds across enterprise architecture.

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
• Associate's degree or above, or CASP+ (CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner) or CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or Cloud+ or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• US Citizen

Nice To Haves

• Executive Speaking and Presentation Skills – White board, small and large group presentations
• Technical – Experience with web applications services development/deployment, DevOps/DevSecOps, cloud computing, data and database architectures and analytics, or networking
• Operational – Web site/services operations, management, and security
• Economic and business – RFP/Acquisition support; technical architecture; understanding market trends; cost benefit analysis
• Advisory/Consulting experience with War Department customers
• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities

Responsibilities

• Owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects
• Defining implementation architectures
• Providing inputs to RFI and RFP responses
• 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
• Being a subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services
• Provide thoughtful technical design and offer sensitivity to our customer needs for cloud computing
• Lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community
• Learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture

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
• Sign-on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree