Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Role Details

Job summary At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we\'re hiring highly technical cloud computing architects to help our partners develop technical expertise and capacity, while also collaborating with our customers and partners on key engagements. Our consultants will deliver proof-of-concept projects, topical workshops, and lead implementation projects. These professional services engagements will focus on key customer solutions such as, web applications, enterprise applications, HPC, batch processing and big data, archiving and disaster recovery, education and government. Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 85,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon\'s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. Work/Life Balance Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We are a customer-obsessed organization-leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. As such, this is a customer facing role in a hybrid delivery model. Project engagements include remote delivery methods and onsite engagement that will include travel to customer locations as needed. Mentorship & Career Growth Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we\'re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future. This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services as needed. BA/BS degree or equivalent experience 5+ or more years of IT implementation experience Experience driving discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation Hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or current hands on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required Integration of cloud services with on premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc. Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.) Scripting and/or coding skills Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3) Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments Leading highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments Large scale migration experience Data Center to Data Center and/or Data Center to Cloud Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell) Configuration management using CloudFormation, Chef & Pu

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