Sr. WW Solutions Architect - EC2 Performance
Job ID: 2795310 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists who 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!
The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.
Role includes up to 30% travel.
Key job responsibilities
The team is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect who will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for supporting customers across the wide range of EC2 instances. As an EC2 Performance Solution Architect (SA), you will work with customers globally, partner closely with the engineering, business development, and technical field teams to drive the adoption of Amazon EC2 Compute resources. The EC2 Performance SA will develop white papers, blogs, reference architectures, and presentations to enable customers and partners to understand and leverage the value of EC2. The EC2 Performance SA will also help drive enablement initiatives to continually develop the best technical field teams in the industry.
About the team
The AWS EC2 Performance team was created to make sure customers can deploy the best, most scalable, and most performant architectures possible. You’ll play an important role as an advocate with our service teams to make sure we are building the right products.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ Years design/implementation/consulting experience of distributed applications.
- 5+ Years of experience debugging and troubleshooting applications developed in Java, Ruby, Python, C/C++, Go, or Rust language(s) and frameworks.
- 5+ Years experience analyzing and interpreting performance metrics and logs.
- 5+ Years deploying and running containers at scale including orchestration technologies like EKS and ECS.
- 3+ Years experience presenting to senior leadership within a customer or partner organization.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability to understand the impact of cross-az/cross-region on network communication latency and application performance.
- Familiarity with common enterprise services and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.
- Technical leadership, including the ability to understand the customer IT landscape, identify opportunities and overcome any technical obstacles, ultimately influencing the adoption of AWS platform in conjunction with business requirements.
- AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise.
- Computer Science/relevant degree and/or experience highly desired.
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