Forward Deployed Engineer, Wwps Proserve

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Arlington, VA · Project/Program/Product Management--Technical

This role is for a Forward Deployed Engineer on the AWS ProServe team, focusing on designing, implementing, and managing AWS solutions for customers. It requires strong software/systems engineering, coding, automation, and design/architecture skills, with experience in cloud architecture and solution implementation, and knowledge of primary AWS services. The role involves collaborating with customers to meet their technical requirements and business objectives throughout their cloud journey.

What you'd actually do

  1. Designing and implementing complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions tailored to customer needs
  2. Providing technical guidance and troubleshooting support throughout project delivery
  3. Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and propose effective migration strategies
  4. Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends and emerging technologies
  5. Sharing knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
  • Knowledge of the primary aws services (ec2, elb, rds, route53 & s3)
  • Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
  • 3+ years of work with software development lifecycle from conception to delivery experience
  • Experience in designing, planning and implementing applications and/or database migrations to the cloud
  • Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of IT implementation experience
  • degree in advanced technology, or AWS Professional level certification
  • Knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, databases, machine learning, and serverless technologies
  • Knowledge of security and compliance standards including HIPAA and GDPR
  • Experience and technical expertise (design and implementation) in cloud computing technologies
  • Experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
  • Experience in performance optimization and cost management for cloud environments
  • Experience presenting technical solutions to diverse audiences in pre-sales environments
  • AWS experience preferred, with proficiency in a wide range of AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation)
  • Experience with automation and scripting (e.g., Terraform, Python)
  • Experience with AWS data/file transfer solutions including AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), and/or AWS DataSync

What the JD emphasized

  • advanced software/systems engineering background
  • Coding/automation and design/architecture skills are required
  • US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance