Sr. Cloud Operations Architect

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud computing organization seeks a seasoned Operations Architect to act as a technical advisor for clients, ensuring the adoption and optimal use of cloud services. The ideal candidate will possess strong AWS experience, excellent customer-facing skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with diverse technical teams. You will help clients solve their complex technical challenges and build effective cloud strategies, collaborating with a range of stakeholders. This role also requires occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Experience in technical roles such as Solutions Architect or Software Engineer.
• Strong skills in AWS and/or other cloud platforms.
• Demonstrated programming skills in languages like Java, Python, or C#.

Responsibilities

• Advise on solutions and provide technical guidance to clients.
• Ensure AWS environments remain operationally healthy.
• Collaborate with various teams to deliver comprehensive cloud solutions.

Skills

Technical Account Management

Cloud Architecture

Customer Communication

Problem-Solving

DevOps Tools

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Would you like to join one of the fastest-growing organizations within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and help customers of all industries and sizes gain the best value and service from AWS? AWS Enterprise Support Cloud Operations Architect drives our customers' creative and transformative spirit of innovation across all technologies - including Compute, Storage, Database, Big Data, Application-level Services, Networking, Serverless, Deployment, Security, and more. This is not a sales role but an opportunity to be the principal technical advisor and voice of the customer to organizations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 enterprises.

The Role

As an Operations Architect, you will help craft and execute strategies to drive our customers' adoption and use of AWS services - including EC2, S3, DynamoDB, RDS databases, Lambda, CloudFront CDN, IoT, and many more. Your technical acumen and customer-facing skills will enable you to effectively represent AWS within a customer's environment and drive discussions with senior leadership regarding incidents, trade-offs, support, and risk management.

You will provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices and proactively keep your customers' AWS environments operationally healthy. The close relationships developed with your customers will allow you to understand their business and operational needs and technical challenges, helping them achieve the greatest value from AWS. This position may require travel of 10% or more as needed.

Key job responsibilities

• Advise on solutions, provide technical guidance, and advocate for the customer
• Ensure AWS environments remain operationally healthy while reducing cost and complexity
• Develop trusting relationships with customers, understanding their business needs and technical challenges
• Drive technical discussions regarding incidents, trade-offs, and risk management
• Consult with partners from developers to C-suite executives
• Collaborate with AWS Solutions Architects, Business Developers, Professional Services, and Sales Teams
• Proactively find opportunities for customers to gain additional value from AWS
• Provide detailed reviews of service events, monthly & quarterly metrics, and pre-launch planning
• Solve problems across different customers migrating workloads to the cloud

Minimum requirements

• Experience in roles such as Technical Account Manager, Solutions Architect, Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, Cloud Architect, etc.
• Understanding operational parameters and troubleshooting for at least four of the following: Compute, Storage, Networking, CDN, Databases, DevOps, Big Data and Analytics, Security, Architecture, Applications Development in distributed systems.
• External customer-facing experience with ability to communicate clearly to varied audiences
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Professional experience with AWS and/or other cloud platforms like Azure, Google Cloud
• Programming or scripting skills in Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, C#, PHP
• Experience as Software Engineer, Developer, Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer, etc.
• Knowledge of DevOps tools and practices including CI/CD, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef

Additional info

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Required Experience: Senior IC