Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Solutions Architect to join our AWS team in California. You will help customers understand how to migrate workloads to the cloud and build scalable, secure architectures on AWS.

In this on-site role, you will partner with sales and engineering teams, lead architectural discussions, and mentor customers through deployment, with travel up to 30% as needed.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technology domains (software, cloud, systems) experience.
• 3+ years in design, implementation, or consulting for apps/infrastructures.
• 10+ years IT development or implementation/consulting in software/Internet industries.
• Willingness to travel up to 30%.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key member of the solution architecture team, ensuring success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
• Partner with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through AWS adoption.
• Educate customers on AWS value proposition and participate in deep architectural discussions for cloud deployments.
• Conduct training sessions for customers considering or using AWS.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge within the AWS solutions architect community.
• Contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as white papers.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable cloud advocacy.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Customer-facing

Travel readiness

Education

Master's degree in CS, engineering or related

Bachelor's degree in engineering/technology

Tools

AWS certification

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Solutions Architect to join our AWS team in California. You will help customers understand how to migrate workloads to the cloud and build scalable, secure architectures on AWS.

In this on-site role, you will partner with sales and engineering teams, lead architectural discussions, and mentor customers through deployment, with travel up to 30% as needed.