Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer, Wwps Professional Services

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

This role is for a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services. The primary focus is on designing, implementing, and managing AWS solutions for customers to help them achieve their business outcomes. The role involves working closely with customers and partners throughout their cloud journey, providing technical expertise, and acting as a trusted advisor. Key responsibilities include solution design, implementation, troubleshooting, requirement gathering, and knowledge sharing. While the role mentions emerging technologies and customer success in cloud adoption, it does not involve direct AI/ML model development or research as its core craft. The role is customer-facing and focused on cloud infrastructure and application deployment.

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

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • 5+ years of work with software development lifecycle from conception to delivery experience
  • 5+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience
  • Experience in designing, planning and implementing applications/database migrations to the cloud
  • Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

Nice to have

  • Experience presenting technical solutions to diverse audiences in pre-sales environments
  • Experience in performance optimization and cost management for cloud environments
  • Experience in database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis)
  • Knowledge of security and compliance standards including HIPAA and GDPR
  • Knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, databases, machine learning, and serverless technologies
  • 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

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