Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect who will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for helping US Federal customers succeed by adopting and building on EC2 Graviton instances. As an EC2 Graviton Solutions Architect (SA), you will partner closely with the engineering, business development, and technical field teams to drive the enablement and adoption of AWS Graviton based EC2 instances. The EC2 Graviton SA will develop white papers, blogs, reference architectures, and presentations to enable customers and partners to understand and leverage the value of EC2 Graviton instances. The EC2 Graviton SA will also help drive enablement initiatives to continually develop the best technical field teams in the industry. As a Solutions Architect for AWS Graviton you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to redefine how customers create and consume cloud services at a scale not seen before. As a technical expert in the go-to-market specialist team, you'll be at the tip of the spear for technology thought leadership and implementation with major customers across a broad array of EC2 Engagements.
The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a deep understanding of cloud, use cases, architectures, workflow and ecosystem. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a Solutions Architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges. Graviton-based instances provide the best price performance for workloads in Amazon EC2. Graviton-based instances support a wide range of general purpose, burstable, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, storage-optimized, and accelerated computing workloads including application servers, microservices, high-performance computing (HPC), CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, video encoding, electronic design automation, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches. Thousands of AWS customers are running production workloads on Graviton-based instances with significant performance gains and cost savings.
Key job responsibilities
* Engage directly with customers and partners to provide them with technical advocacy as they build on AWS. Ensure that they are spending as little time and money as possible doing so.
* Create plans, in conjunction with other members of customer and partner account teams, to define how you will help your customers with their cloud needs
* Continuously build personal expertise across a wide range of AWS services and reference architectures while providing thought leadership to customers and partners
* Share your technical knowledge broadly by participating in one-to-few and one-to-many sessions with larger groups of customers and partners.
* Work with other teams at AWS (e.g. marketing, training, APN) to contribute to the creation of content that can be delivered to the broader community at scale (e.g. online videos, and other digital content)
* Travel to client locations as needed. Estimated 30% travel requirement.
A day in the life
The US Federal Specialist SA team positions AWS as the best place to generate insights by putting customers data to work. As a Specialist Solutions Architect on team supporting Worldwide Public Sector customers, you will own technical engagements, define implementation architectures, and be a subject-matter-expert for customer solutions and technical architectures. By advancing successful customer outcomes on AWS—such as more scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient architectures—we enable customers to shift their IT resources to focus on innovation.
About the team
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.
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EEO/Accommodations
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please let us know and we will connect you to our accommodation team. You may also reach them directly by visiting https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- • Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- • Expert level technical acumen, including the ability to understand the customer IT landscape, identify opportunities and overcome any technical obstacles, ultimately influencing the adoption of AWS platform in conjunction with business requirements- • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- • Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- • Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- • One or more AWS certifications, e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate
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