Senior Cloud Architect, Global Accounts, AWSI Professional Services

DESCRIPTION
Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help the largest Global customers and partners innovate and transform on Amazon Web Services? Are you a strategic thinker with hands-on technical skills that can influence stakeholders to set a bold vision and lead teams through high impact programs using new technology? Would you like to gain the deepest customer and partner insights on maximizing the value of cloud computing technologies?

At AWS, we’re hiring a highly technical Senior Cloud Consultants to build innovative solutions with our Global customers and partners. Our consultants deliver meaningful business outcomes to Global customers through a combination of Cloud solution implementation and expert consultancy. These professional services engagements will focus on key customer solutions such as Cloud Infrastructure, Web applications, Enterprise applications, Big Data Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions, and DevOps transformations.

Key job responsibilities
- Expertise - Collaborate with AWS field business development, marketing, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon RDS databases, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), etc.
- Solutions - Define, deliver, and provide thought leadership on-site technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in on-site visits with prospective customers, understanding customer requirements, and proposing and delivering packaged offerings, and delivering custom solution engagements. Lead technical discussions with customer IT stakeholders and hands on delivery teams to accelerate their adoption of new technologies and practices.
- Delivery - Engagements may include on-site projects proving the use of AWS services to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private cloud and public cloud services. Engagements may include migration of existing applications and development of new applications using AWS cloud services.
- Insights - Work with AWS engineering and support teams to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world implementation challenges and recommend new capabilities that would simplify adoption and drive greater value from use of AWS cloud services.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
7+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience
5+ years of database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience
7+ years of consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions experience
5+ years of software development with object oriented language experience
3+ years of cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
AWS Professional level certification
An Asian language including (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, or Bahasa)

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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