Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for Solutions Architects with strong software engineering skills and a passion for architecting and developing solutions to show customers the art of the possible. You will be part of a agile team of innovative practitioners who are obsessed with understanding the needs of our customers and have the skills to partner with them in experimenting with new ideas that can open up new markets or radically change how they deliver existing products/services.
In this role you will use your software development skills to develop prototypes using Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative IA, IoT and Serverless Architectures. You will apply software engineering best practices that ensures the prototypes provide a foundation to production solutions. We will provide a creative environment where high judgement failure is embraced so you can move fast without compromising on research time that is required to experiment with new ideas.
At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and be eager to make a big impact.
You are intellectually curious and enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed while developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.
You have an area of focus where you are a subject matter expert such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT, or some facet of the Big Data ecosystem. You enjoy collaborating with people, even outside the technical team, to deep dive into customer problemas and find the best solutions for our customers.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
Key job responsibilities
- Architect, develop, test and implement loosely coupled distributed software solutions.
- Research and employ up-to-date technological developments in customer engagements.
- Drive the AWS platform by aligning customer requirements with AWS service teams’ roadmaps.
- This role will focus on customers using AWS for research, development, and innovation.
- Author or contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as white-papers, tutorials, blogs, etc.
- Position requires travel, generally, between 0 - 25%.
A day in the life
About the team Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 7+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures
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