Associate Professional Services Consultant - Early Career Program

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Associate Professional Services Consultant, where you will embark on an exciting career journey with Amazon Web Services. This innovative program is designed for recent graduates and early career professionals, providing you with the opportunity to learn from AWS experts while developing technical skills in cloud computing, machine learning, and more. You'll engage in hands-on training, work on real-world projects, and gain valuable certifications, all while helping organizations harness the power of the cloud. If you're eager to embrace new technologies and make a significant impact, this role is perfect for you!

Qualifications

• Degree in a technical field or equivalent experience required.
• Experience or interest in programming languages is essential.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers to craft scalable cloud architectures.
• Educate organizations on cloud-based solutions and best practices.

Skills

Java

Python

Ruby

Node.js

C#

C++

Networking fundamentals

Agile methodologies

Infrastructure as code

AWS services

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Mathematics/Technology

Equivalent training/certifications

Tools

Chef

Puppet

Ansible

Job description

Associate Professional Services Consultant - Early Career Program

Job ID: 2802852 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Role starts in March or September 2025

Do you want to experiment with innovative technologies, including Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, and Internet of Things? Are you passionate about educating, training, designing, and building enterprise cloud computing solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking recent graduates, early career professionals, and advanced career professionals with limited technical experience interested in jump-starting a career as an Associate Professional Services Consultant.

Successful hires will be put through the Professional Services Consultant Program or the Tech U program depending on your specialization. These are accelerated workforce development programs focused on helping recent graduates and early career professionals build technical and professional skills to jump-start technical careers at AWS. The program features cohort-based training followed by on-the-job training. You will complete specialized curriculum, shadow AWS experts, and receive coaching and on-the-job training to help you succeed in your new role.

Residents will also prepare to take the certification exams for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. During the program’s On-the-Job training phase, you will prepare for additional certifications that align to your role.

Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.

Associate Professional Services Consultant:
As an Associate Professional Services Consultant, you will partner with customers and several AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build min-share and broad use of AWS within organizations.

The program offers the opportunity to specialize in an area of interest including:

1. DevOps Specialist: A leader in building advanced computing systems that harness continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines and utilize the strengths of cloud computing to build scalable and economical systems for clients.
2. Cloud Infrastructure Architect: An expert in cloud-based networking and system rollouts. CIAs specialize in network performance, infrastructure provisioning, and building Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
3. Application Developer: AppDev resources are specialists in designing applications that run natively in the cloud. They are experts in building programs that run on any number of platforms including virtualized instances, containers, or serverless architecture.
4. Data & Analytics: This role supports our services that leverage data and produce business insights, which may include using Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI). Helping our customers use and integrate Big Data services in what is arguably our industry’s most exciting space.
5. Security Consultant: Supports our services that have a focus on enabling security specialists using AWS Services including Identity Access Management (IAM), GuardDuty, Shield, Key Management Service (KMS), CloudTrail, CloudHSM, Inspector etc.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• A degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Mathematics / Technology / Related science/technical field OR equivalent training, certifications, and/or experience (0-2 years).
• Experience with one of the programming languages like Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, C#, or C++ OR the interest and technical ability to learn a programming language.
• Written and verbal communication skills and ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions to both large and small audiences.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• Experience with Networking fundamentals including Security, Storage or Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL), Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows).
• Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies; Experience with infrastructure as code, ops automation, and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible.
• Knowledge of the primary AWS services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53, and S3.
• Experience around implementing cloud-based technology solutions - in a school project or while working for a company.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.

Posted: October 21, 2024 (Updated 3 days ago)