Cloud Architect

BS level technical degree required; Computer Science or Math background preferred
- Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to lead effectively across organizations
- Current hands-on software development experience required
- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg.
security, privacy, SOX, HIPPA etc.)
- Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required
- Deep hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale
- Highly technical and analytical, possessing 7 or more years of IT implementation experience
- Customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation

Job summary

Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use cloud computing web services to do big new things faster, at lower cost?
Do you like to work on-site in a variety of business environments, leading teams through high impact projects using the newest technology?
Would you like to gain the deepest customer and partner insights on maximizing the value of cloud computing technologies?
- Solutions - Define and deliver 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.
- 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.
- Long term development of large, complex, and distributed enterprise organizations
- Educate customers on AWS services and translate those into a clear business value proposition

About the team

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences.
We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion.
We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.
We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.
Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance.
It isn't about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it's about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.
We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment.
We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members.
We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.
We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
- Integration of AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
- Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
- Experience with architecting highly available systems
- Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g.
Jenkins)
- Hands on familiarity with popular Infrastructure-as-Code platforms (e.g.
AWS CDK, Terraform)
- Comfortable with one or more popular full stack development languages (e.g.
Python, Typescript, Java, Golang)
- Experience leading the certification or accreditation of cloud workload(s) to meet industry standards such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and NIST/DoD frameworks