Aurora MySQL Solutions Architect - Scale, Migrate & Optimize

Amazon; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 169,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in New Jersey seeks a Sr. MySQL Specialist Solutions Architect focusing on Aurora MySQL to help customers architect, migrate, optimize, and operate MySQL workloads on Aurora and RDS.

You will work with customer engineers and leaders to design well-architected, production-grade systems, share feedback with the Aurora team, and contribute to AWS Summit talks and internal communities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries.
• Hands-on experience with Aurora MySQL or RDS for MySQL.
• Experience leading migrations to Aurora as the technical owner.
• Experience with Aurora features such as distributed storage, fast cloning, Global Database, CloudWatch, and blue/green deployments.
• Experience architecting or operating MySQL at scale, including multi-terabyte databases, high connection counts, and cross-Region replication.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, resilient architectures for MySQL workloads on Aurora and RDS.
• Collaborate with customers to migrate, optimize, and operate MySQL workloads.
• Share best practices via blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures, and speaking engagements.
• Provide advanced technical guidance to domain-aligned GTM teams and internal AWS communities.

Skills

IT development

Aurora MySQL

Migration leadership

Aurora features

MySQL performance

Multi-region replication

Python/Java/C++

Job description

Amazon in New Jersey seeks a Sr. MySQL Specialist Solutions Architect focusing on Aurora MySQL to help customers architect, migrate, optimize, and operate MySQL workloads on Aurora and RDS.

You will work with customer engineers and leaders to design well-architected, production-grade systems, share feedback with the Aurora team, and contribute to AWS Summit talks and internal communities.