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Description

Are you passionate about helping businesses revolutionize their cloud journey through container technology? Join AWS's Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) as a Specialist Solutions Architect!

We are looking for innovative leaders to join our team of Specialist Solutions Architects. This role will have a particular focus on working with our partners, both Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Systems Integrators (SIs). You will act as a trusted advisor to these partners and help them drive success. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to help shape our services including Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, AWS Fargate, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry. You will demonstrate customer obsession, representing the voice of the customer as you work with product teams to evolve AWS services. You will also work directly with the most innovative and forward-thinking customers - leaders in their respective fields - earning trust to understand their requirements and turn them into reality. You will drive architectural best practices, building and operating advanced, scalable, reliable, and secure workloads by collaborating with customers, developing impactful content, and enabling the wider community to adopt the AWS portfolio. This includes acting as a strategic technical leader in the field to provide architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote & accelerate partner engagements worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

Work with AWS Partners to define the container components of best-in-class Go-To-Market (GTM) concepts, solutions, and initiatives.

Design, implementation, and deployment experience with advanced containerized solutions architectures.

Use data and customer anecdotes to provide feedback to product teams, influencing feature development and future product roadmaps.

Provide advanced technical knowledge through container aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.

Steward the deployment and operations of workloads on AWS using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Fargate, Kubernetes or other container services.

About the team

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies

- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

- Recent experience working with cloud-native and containerized workloads

Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

- Experience working with end user or developer communities

- Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers

- Experience in a technical role within a sales organization

- MBA, Computer Science, and/or Engineering/Math background is highly desired; working knowledge of software development practices and data center/infrastructure/networking technologies highly desired

- Professional experience working with ISV or SI AWS partners

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.