Senior Aurora MySQL Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain expertise who can address advanced technical concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO), SSAs work with customers to solve complex challenges that require expert knowledge.

They design scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures to address those challenges. We are looking for a MySQL expert to be our next SSA specializing in Aurora MySQL to help customers

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.
• Experience with any programming language such as Python, Java, C++.
• 5+ years of experience in a technology domain such as software development, cloud, systems engineering, infrastructure, or data and analytics.
• 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 its distributed storage architecture, fast database cloning, Global Database, CloudWatch Database Insights, 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, flexible, and resilient technical architectures to address challenging problems.
• Migrate, optimize, and operate MySQL workloads on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS.
• Work directly with customer engineers and technology leaders to design well-architected production systems for demanding workloads.
• Represent the voice of the customer, sharing feedback with the Aurora service team to influence feature development and product roadmap.

Skills

Cloud experience

Migration leadership

Aurora MySQL experience

MySQL scalability

Programming basics

Tools

Aurora MySQL

RDS MySQL

Python

Java

C++

Job description

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain expertise who can address advanced technical concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO), SSAs work with customers to solve complex challenges that require expert knowledge.

They design scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures to address those challenges. We are looking for a MySQL expert to be our next SSA specializing in Aurora MySQL to help customers