Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Professional

Basic qualifications - 7+ years of IT implementation experience and expertise integrating cloud services with on-premise technologies - Bachelor technical degree or related experience - Hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or current hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience - Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required - Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations. Fluency in English and Spanish (written and verbal)

Job summary

Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use cloud computing to do big new things? Would you like a career path that enables you to progress with the rapid adoption of cloud computing? Do you want to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption? Do you like to work in a variety of business environments, leading teams through high impact projects that use the newest cloud infrastructure and platform technologies?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.

We are looking for highly talented hands-on technical consulting architects who can lead complex projects to help our customers accelerate their journey to the cloud. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s amazing technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.

Key job responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

- Work with customers and partners internalizing their context while using your business and technical skills to design solutions based on requirements and constraints. You will own and complete key tasks and deliverables, and collaborate with others to define and implement optimal, complete solutions based on stakeholders needs.
- Collaborate across the entire AWS organization to develop trusted relationships with customer key functional leaders and business leaders.
- Work with AWS engineering teams to convey partner and enterprise customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps. Influence roadmap changes to accelerate customer adoption and value.
- Collaborate with AWS field sales, technical sales, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS platform services.
- Travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed

About the team

About Us

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have twelve 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 14 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. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop

into a better-rounded Amazonian and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
- Experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles
- 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
- Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3).
- Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby,