Sr. Application Architect, AWS Professional Services

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Application Architect, where you'll leverage your extensive experience in cloud architecture and software development. In this dynamic role, you'll work on transformative projects, helping clients optimize their applications for the AWS Cloud. Collaborate with talented engineers, implement best practices, and drive innovation in a customer-facing position that requires travel to client locations. This is an exciting opportunity to further your career within one of the most progressive technology firms, making a significant impact on cloud adoption and application development.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technical design and architecture.
• Strong background in cloud-based solutions and project management.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable applications leveraging AWS services.
• Lead customer engagements and deliver professional services.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Software Development

Project Management

DevOps Practices

Agile Methodologies

Customer Engagement

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS Services

Infrastructure as Code

Continuous Integration Tools

Job description

Sr. Application Architect, AWS Professional Services

Job ID: 2906694 | Amazon Web Services Korea LLC

Are you an experienced cloud architect/developer who can assist our customers in architecting, developing and re-engineering applications that can fully leverage the AWS Cloud? Do you like to work on a variety of game changing projects, at the forefront of application development and cloud technology adoption?

In order for applications to be cloud optimized they need to be architected correctly enabling them to reap the benefits of elasticity, horizontal scalability, automation and high availability. On the AWS platform services such as Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Elastic Container Services to name just a few, provide opportunities to design and build cloud ready applications.

Amazon Web Services is looking for highly talented hands on technical architects to help accelerate our growing Professional Services business. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.

Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.

We are looking for hands on architects/developers who are passionate about:

1. Helping customers architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services
2. Architecting and developing customer applications to be cloud optimized
3. Working as a technical leader alongside customer business, development and infrastructure teams.
4. Providing deep software development knowledge with respect to cloud architecture, design patterns and programming
5. Advising and implementing AWS best practices
6. Working as both an infrastructure and application development specialist
7. Agile software development and DevOps
8. Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment

Our Consultants work with enterprise customers locally, regionally and potentially domestically. As such, Consultants must have the ability to travel to client locations to sell and deliver professional services as needed.

A day in the life: This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services as needed.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience
- Experience in cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system
- 7+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions
- Experience in software development with object oriented language

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