Senior AWS Solutions Architect Amazon
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Solutions Architect in San Francisco Bay Area who is passionate about helping our customers build infrastructures and applications at scale. Our solutions architects are experienced technologists with technical breadth and depth coupled with strong interpersonal skills. As a solutions architect, you will work directly with some of our largest and fastest growing customers to enable innovation through continuous deployment of cloud native technology stacks and advanced cloud solutions.

Our solutions architects build architectures and provide prescriptive guidance across application architecture, networking, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, and Big data. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of large scale distributed computing solutions, and experience leading deep architecture discussions, and hands on experience. You will partner with Sales, Professional Services, and other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of our services.

Roles and Responsibilities

* Ensure customer success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform
* Lead deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
* Be an AWS evangelist. Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS.
* Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, blogs, and proof of concepts
* In partnership with the sales team, formulate, and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS
* Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
* Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community