at Amazon in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect who will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for helping customers succeed by adopting and building the most efficient compute architectures such as, scalable, and highly-available yet cost-effective architecture on the cloud, leveraging EC2 Graviton instances, Spot Instances, and Autoscaling Groups.
As an EC2 Efficient Compute Solutions Architect (SA), you will partner closely with the engineering, business development, and technical field teams to drive the enablement and adoption of AWS Graviton based EC2 instances and Spot Instances. You will develop white papers, blogs, reference architectures, and presentations to enable customers and partners to understand and leverage the value of Efficient Compute architectures. As a Solutions Architect, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to redefine how customers create and consume cloud services at a scale not seen before. As a technical expert in the field specialist team, you’ll be at the tip of the spear for technology thought leadership and implementation with major customers across a broad array of EC2 Engagements.
The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a deep understanding of cloud, use cases, architectures, workflow and ecosystem. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a Solutions Architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges. AWS Graviton powered instances provide the best price performance and support a wide range of computing workloads including application servers, microservices, high-performance computing (HPC), CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, video encoding, electronic design automation, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches. Thousands of customers, including Epic Games, DIRECTV, Intuit, Lyft, and Formula 1 are running production workloads on AWS Graviton powered instances with significant performance gains and cost savings. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS cloud and are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. You can use Spot Instances for various stateless, fault-tolerant, or flexible applications such as big data, containerized workloads, CI/CD, web servers, high-performance computing (HPC), and test & development workloads.
AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA!
Key job responsibilities
Engage directly with customers and partners to provide them with technical advocacy as they build on AWS. Ensure that they are spending as little time and money as possible doing so.
- Create plans, in conjunction with other members of customer and partner account teams, to define how you will help your customers with their cloud needs
- Continuously build personal expertise across a wide range of AWS services and reference architectures while providing thought leadership to customers and partners
- Share your technical knowledge broadly by participating in one-to-few and one-to-many sessions with larger groups of customers and partners.
- Work with other teams at AWS (e.g. marketing, training, APN) to contribute to the creation of content that can be delivered to the broader community at scale (e.g. online videos, and other digital content)
- Travel to client locations as needed. Estimated 30% travel requirement.
About the team
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.
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
- 7+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 7+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 5+ years of technology/software sales experience
- Bachelor’s degree
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers
- Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
- History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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.
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