Technical Account Manager

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services is seeking an AWS Technical Account Manager in Dubai to help enterprise customers maximize their use of cloud technology. The role involves providing strategic technical guidance, managing customer relationships, and ensuring operational health of AWS environments while promoting best practices.

Benefits

Mentorship and career growth opportunities

Flexible work-life balance

Inclusive work culture

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role like Technical Account Manager or Solutions Architect.
• Fluency in English or Arabic.
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Drive customer adoption of AWS services.
• Build solutions and provide technical insights.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders from developers to executives.

Skills

Customer obsession

Technical guidance

Operational understanding

Tools

Cloud services

DevOps tools

Job description

DESCRIPTION

An AWS Technical Account Manager is a trusted advisor and cloud operations architect for our Enterprise Support customers. As a trusted advisor you'll have a direct impact in helping our customers gain the most value from cloud technology. You'll craft and execute strategies to drive our customers' adoption and use of AWS services. 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/operational needs and technical challenges, and help them achieve the greatest value from AWS.

Our Technical Account Managers partner with some of the most iconic businesses in the country. These range from rising startups building their business from scratch through to large enterprises going through significant transformation. You'll provide advice on architecture, support strategy, project, and launch planning as well as ongoing operational issues.

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
* You'll build solutions, provide technical guidance and advocate for the customer
* Ensure AWS environments remain operationally healthy whilst reducing cost and complexity
* Develop trusting relationships with customers, understanding their business needs and technical challenges
* Using your technical acumen and customer obsession, you'll drive technical discussions regarding incidents, trade-offs, and risk management
* Consult with a range of partners from developers through to C-suite executives
* Collaborate with AWS Solutions Architects, Business Developers, Professional Services Consultants, and Sales Account Managers
* With a bias for action, you'll proactively find opportunities for customers to gain additional value from AWS
* Solve a variety of problems across different customers as they migrate their workloads to the cloud
* Uplift customer capabilities by running workshops and other enablement sessions.

As we continue to rapidly expand in EMEA, you'll have plenty of opportunities to develop your technical, consulting and leadership skills. You'll work with talented cloud technologists whilst expanding your knowledge of AWS products. You'll also have the chance to receive mentor-ship and gain AWS certifications.

Do you want to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption? We would love to hear from you.

About the team
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- * Experience in a similar role as a Technical Account Manager, Consultant, Solutions Architect, Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, Cloud Architect etc.
- * Understand operational parameters and troubleshooting for 2 or more of the following: Compute, Storage, Networking, CDN, Databases, DevOps, Big Data and Analytics, Security, Applications Development
- * Internal enterprise or external customer-facing experience with the ability to clearly articulate to small and large audiences
- * Ability to juggle tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment
- * Customer obsessed
- * Fluency in either one of the languages: English/Arabic

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- * Professional experience with cloud offerings such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform etc.
- * Programming or scripting skills with a combination of Java, Python Perl, Ruby, C#, and/or PHP a plus but not a requirement
- * Previous experience as a Software Engineer, Developer, DevOps Engineer etc.
- * Understanding of DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration / Deployment, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef is a plus

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