Senior Cloud Solutions Architect – Media & Entertainment

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Santa Monica is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to partner with customers’ senior leaders, shaping long-term cloud strategies and architecting scalable, secure, cost-optimized solutions.

You will drive end-to-end cloud designs, educate with technical content, and collaborate across sales, professional services, and engineering to accelerate adoption while staying ahead of media and streaming tech trends.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience across technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• Experience communicating with executives and leading architecture roadmaps for IT transformations toward cloud adoption.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end cloud solutions for customers, aligning with business objectives and ensuring security, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Act as trusted technical advisor to senior customer leadership, aligning short-term decisions with long-term outcomes.
• Drive technical solution discussions, assess trade-offs, and mitigate high-risk approaches.
• Create technical content (presentations, workshops, sample code, white papers) to educate customers on cloud strategy.

Skills

12+ years experience in cloud/tech

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Santa Monica is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to partner with customers’ senior leaders, shaping long-term cloud strategies and architecting scalable, secure, cost-optimized solutions.

You will drive end-to-end cloud designs, educate with technical content, and collaborate across sales, professional services, and engineering to accelerate adoption while staying ahead of media and streaming tech trends.