Storage Solutions Architect, US DOD Amazon
Ballston, VA

Job Description

Are you a Storage Technical Specialist? Do you like to solve the most complex and large-scale storage challenges in the world today? Do you want to have an impact in the development and use of new storage technologies? Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use Cloud computing web services to build new solutions, faster, and at lower cost? Do you like to gain the deepest customer and partner insights using Cloud computing technologies?

Amazon aims to be the most customer centric company on earth. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers critical applications for hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Gather technical requirements and formulate storage solutions - Collaborate with customers to deeply understand their technical requirements, business requirements and budget. Formulate appropriate solutions by providing solution diagrams, architecture and documentation to customers.

Deliver storage demos and Proof of Concepts (POCs) - Collaborate with Storage Specialty Sales team (SSR) to deliver customized demos and POCs to customers . This involves understanding customer requirements and then tailoring specific demos and POCs to fit the customer needs.

Trusted Technical Advisor ¬ Win the confidence of both the customer and the SSR as their trusted technical advisor. Propose solutions in the best interest of the customer in partnership with the SSR.

Partner and AWS field training - Provide deep technical training to partners and AWS field SAs to educate them on AWS storage offerings.

Customer advocacy & assistance - Engage directly with the top customers and partners to assist with solution adoption. Relay feedback to the services team on experience and what improvements should be made.

Establish tech cred. with AWS, customer and partner technical community - Be viewed as the domain expert for the solution by AWS, partners and customers. Document, capture and share feedback with technical community.