Building Architect jobs in United States

The Role

As a Cloud 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/operational needs and technical challenges, and help them achieve the greatest value from AWS. This position will require the ability to travel 10% or more as needed.
The Cloud Operations Architect is the centerpiece of value to our Enterprise Support customers. If you wish to be at the forefront of innovation, come join us!

Key job responsibilities

1. You’ll advise on solutions, provide technical guidance and advocate for the customer
2. Ensure AWS environments remain operationally healthy whilst reducing cost and complexity
3. Develop trusting relationships with customers, understanding their business needs and technical challenges
4. Using your technical acumen and customer obsession, you’ll drive technical discussions regarding incidents, trade-offs, and risk management
5. Consult with a range of partners from developers through to C-suite executives
6. Collaborate with AWS Solutions Architects, Business Developers, Professional Services Consultants, and Sales Account Managers
7. With a bias for action, you'll proactively find opportunities for customers to gain additional value from AWS
8. Provide detailed reviews of service events, monthly & quarterly metrics, detailed pre-launch planning
9. Solve a variety of problems across different customers as they migrate their workloads to the cloud

Desired Candidate Profile

• Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
• Experience in internal enterprise or external customer-facing environment as a technical lead
• UAE Citizen (Emirati)