[Hiring] Solutions Architect @Amazon

Role Description

This position can reside in the continental US.

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing EdTech business as part of the World Wide Public Sector practice. As a Solutions Architect within AWS, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services (e.g., AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS RDS, and AWS CloudFront) directly with customers and our ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers.

• Own the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects.
• Define implementation architectures, respond to RFPs, and develop deep expertise in AWS technologies.
• Be a subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services.
• Provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our customers.
• Lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community.
• Collaborate with and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry.

In this role, you will be part of the EdTech SA team, an exciting business that helps commercial companies and partners serve the needs of public sector entities.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about the following:

• Helping our customers to design and create cloud computing architectures.
• Our company credo: “Work hard. Have fun. Make history.”
• Deep-dive technical discussions around design and intellectual curiosity to keep technical skills current.

With experience in the following key areas:

• Technical presentation experience – White board, small and large group presentations.
• Technical – Web Services development/deployment experience, cloud computing.
• Operational – Web site/services operations, management, and security.
• Ability to travel 30%.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 4+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive 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 and parental leave.