Senior Cloud Architect: Telco & AI on AWS

Socket.dev; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Web Services is seeking an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to partner with Telco and Media customers. You will design scalable cloud architectures across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-native environments, including AI deployments and edge workloads.

You will engage with senior technical leaders to drive AI adoption, migrations, and cloud transformations, delivering measurable business value and robust, secure designs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• Experience architecting infrastructure solutions for cloud environments.
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical advisor for Telco and Media customers on their cloud transformation and AI adoption journeys.
• Design and architect large-scale, distributed systems spanning on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-native environments.
• Guide customers on generative AI use cases — including agentic voice systems, intelligent network operations, subscriber personalization, and AI-powered customer care.
• Drive business engagements to develop technical strategies for complex enterprise and telco workload migrations (5G core, OSS/BSS, RAN, media streaming).
• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS with deep architectural discussions, ensuring designs for resiliency, security, cost optimization, and AI-readiness.
• Build deep relationships across C-level, engineering leadership, and architecture teams to become the customer's trusted advisor.
• Collaborate across AWS teams (Specialist SAs, ProServe, Product, Partners) to drive and shape repeatable solutions for telco and media outcomes.
• Assist Partners in designing and implementing large-scale network transformation programs, including cloud-native network functions and edge deployments.
• Influence AWS service roadmap by acting as a liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge via whitepapers, blogs, reference architectures, and internal mechanisms.
• Represent and promote AWS within the Telecommunications, Media, and Service Provider communities through workshops, conferences, and public speaking.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture experience

Executive stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

Tools

Linux/Unix

Windows Servers

Job description

Amazon Web Services is seeking an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to partner with Telco and Media customers. You will design scalable cloud architectures across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-native environments, including AI deployments and edge workloads.

You will engage with senior technical leaders to drive AI adoption, migrations, and cloud transformations, delivering measurable business value and robust, secure designs.