Sr Specialist SA, Migrations and Modernization

Amazon; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Mentorship programs

Work-life balance initiatives

Inclusive team culture

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Specialist in Migrations and Modernization to drive cloud transformations for enterprise customers. This role requires strategic vision in architecting migrations, ensuring seamless transitions to AWS services, and engaging customers in developing their cloud journey. The successful candidate will work closely with technical teams to build solutions that address the unique challenges faced by clients transitioning to the cloud.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technology domains such as cloud computing and software development.
• 5+ years in design or consulting for applications and infrastructures.
• Expertise in migrating legacy solutions to the cloud.

Responsibilities

• Ensure success in migrating applications and services to AWS.
• Build mechanisms and architectures for predictable workload migrations.
• Engage technical teams to define migration pathways.

Skills

Cloud Computing

Software Development

Systems Engineering

Networking

Data & Analytics

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Sr Specialist SA, Migrations and Modernization

Job ID: 3016997 | Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd

Drive enterprise transformation by orchestrating seamless cloud journeys for enterprise customers. Partner with industry leaders and enterprise customers to architect and deliver migrations and modernization strategies that revolutionize legacy systems. Your technical expertise and strategic vision will help businesses unlock their digital future through AWS's ecosystem.

Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
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
- Ensure success in building and migrating and modernizing applications, software and services onto the AWS platform
- Build repeatable mechanisms, architectures, solutions, and playbooks to enable faster, cheaper, predictable, and risk-free workload migrations to AWS
- Define and execute on the technology migration strategy by engaging highly technical teams within AWS (other Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners) to define migration pathways.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
- Guide and motivate the development of whitepapers, data sheets, and other high-value customer facing guidance and best practices
- Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS
- Work with the team to drive POCs to completion
- Work with the team to organize technical workshops, EBAs (Experience Based Accelerators) and facilitate the sharing of knowledge across teams
- Build deep relationships with decision makers within customer accounts to enable them to be “Cloud advocates”
- Strategy & Innovation: articulate business/industry fundamentals (e.g., ROI, TCO, cost benefit analysis); understand regulations and operational excellence; familiarity with business strategy and trends in the IT industry (e.g., CI/CD, Migration, AI…etc.)
- Technology Breadth: demonstrate architectural best practices applied across a breadth of technologies to solve organizational problems, articulate views/roadmaps for future development, and understand the interaction between infrastructure, operations, and development.


About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

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.

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 and 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.

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
- Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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