Senior Cloud Solutions Architect — Migrations & Strategy

Amazon Web Services, Inc.; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Solutions Architect to help customers understand how to move workloads to the cloud and to build scalable, secure architectures on AWS. You will partner with the sales team to drive adoption and work across customer organizations to translate business value into cloud solutions.

The role requires deep technical expertise, customer-facing communication, and the ability to drive large-scale architectural discussions with startups through Global 500

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technology domains (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• 3+ years design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• 10+ years IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries.
• Travel up to 30% of the time.

Responsibilities

• As a key member of the solution architecture team, ensure 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 the adoption of AWS.
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge within the AWS solutions architect community.
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as white papers.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.

Skills

Cloud computing

Software development

Systems engineering

Networking

Data & analytics

Education

Master's degree in CS/engineering or related field

Bachelor's degree in engineering/technology

Tools

AWS certification

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Solutions Architect to help customers understand how to move workloads to the cloud and to build scalable, secure architectures on AWS. You will partner with the sales team to drive adoption and work across customer organizations to translate business value into cloud solutions.

The role requires deep technical expertise, customer-facing communication, and the ability to drive large-scale architectural discussions with startups through Global 500