Solutions Architect, Amazon

• Do you like helping customers implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems
• Do you have experience helping groups understand application architectures and migration approaches, and the skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success?
• Are you familiar with security best practices for applications, servers, and networks?
• Do you want to be part of the business development team helping to establish Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading technology platform?
• Would you like to be part of a sales group, but have your opinion valued as a technical resource as part of planning and strategies?
• Helping our customers to design and create cloud computing architectures
• Our Leadership Principles - It’s critical to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers
• The curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends
• Technical presentation experience – White board, small and large group presentations
• Technical – Experience Designing, Developing, Deploying and/or Migrating to Cloud environments
• Operational – Web site/services operations, management, and security
• Ability to travel 30%
• 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
• 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Desirable

• Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing Public Sector practice
• As a Solutions Architect within AWS, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver a strategy to build broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services (e.g., Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, and Amazon CloudFront) directly with customers and AWS Partners
• Your responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement around specific implementation projects; providing best practices to customers, developing deep expertise in AWS technologies and how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform, and being a subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services
• As a Solutions Architect on our team, you will provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our customers while working with a world class sales and business development team
• You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practices within the AWS Solution Architect community. You will gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today