Sr. Cloud Application Architect, MENAT Professional Services Delivery

Amazon Inc.; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Sr. Cloud Application Architect for MENAT Professional Services Delivery to design, implement, and manage AWS solutions aligned with customer goals.

You will lead complex, scalable, and secure architectures and guide migration strategies across engagements. As a seasoned delivery expert, you will mentor teams, provide technical guidance, and ensure best practices throughout the project lifecycle, collaborating with stakeholders, vendors, and customers to

Qualifications

• Extensive SDLC experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build, tests, and operations.
• Proven ability to lead large-scale enterprise deployments and complex programs.
• Strong DevOps leadership and cloud migration experience (Mainframe, Serverless, Containers).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure AWS solutions tailored to customer needs.
• Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting throughout delivery.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and migration strategies.
• Act as trusted advisor on industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Share knowledge through mentoring, training, and reusable artifacts.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

Docker

DevOps

CI/CD

GenAI

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

VMware

GitLab

Jenkins

CodeDeploy

Job description

Sr. Cloud Application Architect, MENAT Professional Services Delivery

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Sr. Delivery Consultant to join our team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, you'll work closely with customers to design, implement, and manage AWS solutions that meet their technical requirements and business objectives. You'll be a key player in driving customer success through their cloud journey, providing technical expertise and best practices throughout the project lifecycle.

Possessing a deep understanding of AWS products and services, as a Delivery Consultant you will be proficient in architecting complex, scalable, and secure solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of each customer. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, assess current infrastructure, and propose effective migration strategies to AWS. As trusted advisors to our customers, providing guidance on industry trends, emerging technologies, and innovative solutions, you will be responsible for leading the implementation process, ensuring adherence to best practices, optimizing performance, and managing risks throughout the project.

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.

Key job responsibilities

As an experienced technology professional, you will be responsible for:

• Designing and implementing complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions tailored to customer needs
• Providing technical guidance and troubleshooting support throughout project delivery
• Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and propose effective migration strategies
• Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends and emerging technologies
• Sharing knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts

A day in the life

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations, or experience debugging, profiling, and implementing best software engineering practices in large-scale systems
• Experience leading highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
• Experience leading large-scale, technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership, business case development, realizing customer benefits, and successful program completion
• Experience leading software development organizations in a "DevOps" model
• 5+ years of working with Enterprise Application Modernization and Migration technologies, including, but not limited to, Mainframe, Serverless, Containers, or Cloud Operations experience
• Experience in Kubernetes, Docker or containers ecosystem, or experience with virtualization (Hypervisors, VMware, Xen) and experience in Network protocols like DNS/DHCP/TCP
• Experience deploying, managing, and optimizing Microsoft Windows Server, or experience working with REST API based services and experience in any Bigdata architecture
• Experience developing cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Code Deploy (AWS) or GitLab
• GenAI experience including Foundation Model integration, RAG, Agent frameworks and tool-calling for LLM based application.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
• Experience working with partners through account, product or program management and business development engagements
• Previous experiences as Software / Solution Architect, Lead Architect or similar role
• Experience in architecting, designing and developing applications on the AWS platform
• Experience in designing and modernizing applications using containers, serverless technologies and event-driven architectures
• Legacy application assessment and decomposition
• Experience in Database modernisation

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