Solution Architect , AWS India Public Sector

Amazon; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in India is hiring an Enterprise Solutions Architect to engage with top-tier enterprise customers and translate business needs into reliable, cost-effective cloud architectures on AWS. The role spans security, infrastructure, DevOps, databases, and analytics with customer-facing duties and technical leadership.

You will partner with AWS teams to drive revenue growth, educate customers, and lead strategized migrations, while traveling up to 25% as needed.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of technology domain experience (software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, security, networking, data & analytics).
• 2+ years design, implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• 10+ years IT development or implementation/consulting experience in software industry.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with sales to formulate and execute a strategy to accelerate AWS adoption with enterprise customers.
• Lead migrations and development of cloud-native architectures on AWS for large-scale customers.
• Educate customers on AWS value and participate in deep architectural discussions for successful deployments.
• Conduct trainings to transfer knowledge to customers adopting AWS.

Skills

Cloud computing

Software development

Systems engineering

Security

Networking

Data & analytics

Tools

AWS

DevOps

Job description

Solution Architect , AWS India Public Sector

Cloud is the new normal and our customers are interested in leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) to increase agility, improve security, reduce costs and gain global footprint.

We are hiring Enterprise Solutions Architects to work with top-tier Enterprise customers. The Solutions Architect engage with customers to understand their business drivers, assess application portfolios, design reliable and cost-effective cloud native architectures. As an Enterprise Solutions Architect, you will partner with customers, AWS Sales and several other AWS teams to create solutions that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. In collaboration with sales, you will drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers.

The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record in software/technology sales or consulting. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges. We are looking for candidates who are comfortable at the intersection of technology and business. The Solutions Architect is a very technical role - you must be broadly competent across many areas of technology (infrastructure, security, DevOps, databases, application development, analytics) and deep in at least 2-3 of those areas. On the business side, the ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. The Solutions Architect will spend most of their day interacting with several customer stakeholders, including developers, team leads, engineering directors, and CxOs.

Here are some other qualities we are looking for:

Be great fun to work with At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.

Enjoy working with enterprise customers You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of enterprise customers.

Have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems or support engineer, and pre-sales experience. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world‑class solutions built on AWS.

Key job responsibilities

• In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS
• As a key member of the business development and sales team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support
• Open to travel up to 25%

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

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