Job Vacancies at Amazon Web Service

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• Are you a Data Analytics specialist? Do you have Data Warehousing, Hadoop/Data Lake experience? Do you like to solve the most complex and high scale (billions + records) data challenges in the world today? Do you like to work on-site in a variety of business environments, leading teams through high impact projects that use the newest data analytic technologies? Would you like a career path that enables you to progress with the rapid adoption of cloud computing?
• At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re hiring highly technical cloud computing architects to collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements. Our consultants will develop, deliver and implement AI, IOT, and data analytics projects that help our customers leverage their data to develop business insights. These professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions such as Machine Learning, IoT, batch/real-time data processing, Data and Business intelligence.
• This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed.

Responsibilities include:

•  Expertise - Collaborate with AWS field sales, pre-sales, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services such as Athena, Glue, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB NoSQL, Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift.
•  Solutions - Deliver on-site technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in pre-sales on-site visits, understanding customer requirements, creating packaged Data & Analytics service offerings.
•  Delivery - Engagements include short on-site projects proving the use of AWS services to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private cloud and public cloud services. Engagements will include migration of existing applications and development of new applications using AWS cloud services.
•  Insights - Work with AWS engineering and support teams to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world implementations and recommend new capabilities that would simplify adoption and drive greater value from use of AWS cloud services.
•  Innovate - Engaging with the customer’s business and technology stakeholders to create a compelling vision of a data-driven enterprise in their environment

• Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

•  Bachelor’s degree, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field or equivalent professional or military experience
•  8+ years of experience of IT platform implementation in a technical and analytical role
•  5+ years of experience of Data Lake/Hadoop platform implementation
•  3+ years of hands-on experience in implementation and performance tuning Hadoop/Spark implementations.
•  Experience Apache Hadoop and the Hadoop ecosystem
•  Experience with one or more relevant tools (Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Oozie, Hue, Zookeeper, HCatalog, Solr, Avro)
•  Experience with one or more SQL-on-Hadoop technology (Hive, Impala, Spark SQL, Presto)
•  Experience developing software code in one or more programming languages (Java, Python, etc)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

•  Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment
•  Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering or Math
•  Hands on experience leading large-scale global data warehousing and analytics projects
•  Ability to collaborate effectively across organizations
•  Understanding of database and analytical technologies in the industry including MPP and NoSQL databases, Data Warehouse design, BI reporting and Dashboard development
•  Demonstrated industry efficiency in the fields of database, data warehousing or data sciences
•  Implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing, enterprise environments
•  Customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
•  Desire and ability to interact with different levels of the organization from development to C-Level executives

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Regional Marketing Lead – Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)

• Cloud Computing technology is changing the world. We are looking for individuals who want to help shape this exciting time with us. If you have a passion for leading marketing for Sub Saharan Africa, please read on…
• Amazon Web Services is seeking a talented, self-directed regional marketing leader to generate awareness and adoption of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud computing platform. This role will cover Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in an exciting, fast growing business.
• As the Marketing leader for SSA, you will be responsible for building and implementing the AWS marketing strategy, planning, and execution targeted to startups, developers, small businesses and enterprise customers across all of the region. You will work closely with the regional sales teams to identify opportunities and develop innovative marketing strategies. You will help drive marketing initiatives and campaigns that drive awareness, generate demand or help accelerate opportunities in your market. The Regional Marketing Lead will be part of the leadership team and build marketing strategies and initiatives to ignite new markets for AWS in the SSA area.
• You will partner with marketing leaders in other regions across EMEA and share practices with corporate teams in the United States or with other teams worldwide. The right candidate is able to drive business impact and has successful experience in results-driven marketing and partnering with the internal teams to drive growth in new regions, as well as an unbridled passion for technology, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
• Do you look around corners for ways to impact industries by leveraging effective marketing strategies? Are you experienced in partnering with sales teams, being their trusted marketing advisor to drive programs that supports the business growth in new services?
• Come build the future with us.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

•  Solid experience in marketing.
•  Experience in marketing management, developing marketing strategy, digital marketing, event management, product management, lead management.
•  Demonstrated experience in measuring and improving the ROI of marketing investments.
•  Experience of operating and collaborating in a fast-paced, cross-functional, matrixed global organization.
•  A career path that demonstrates increasing levels of responsibility and proven success delivering measurable marketing results.
•  Experience in managing time and multiple priorities to execute high quality deliverables.
•  Proven experience finding creative ways to do more with less, and a track record of staying on budget and deliver on time.
•  Proven knowledge of marketing tools preferred, such as SalesForce.com and Marketo.
•  Fluency in English. Experience in communicating and presenting information across multiple senior stakeholders.
•  Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, technology, or relevant field of study. MBA preferred.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

•  Experience in marketing B2B technology products or services preferred.
•  Experience working in a fast-paced and highly cross-functional organization.
•  Ability to manage time and multiple priorities with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
•  The demonstrated ability to work independently and autonomously
•  Strong attention to detail to meet our high bar for customer-facing content and provide flawless execution.
•  Knowledge of testing and measurement practices to optimize ROI and evolve strategy.
•  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
•  Willingness to travel and ability to work independently and autonomously.
•  MBA preferred.

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DESCRIPTION

• Amazon Web Services is a dynamic, growing business unit of Amazon.
• It was launched in 2006 to give customers access to the same cloud technology we built to serve millions of shoppers on Amazon.com. Today we are providing a reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of organisations.
• Join our Public Sector team and you will be a key part of AWS. Whether we’re working with governments, educators, non-profit or research organisations, we’re using our distinctive, disruptive innovation to make the world a better place. It requires your inventiveness, a sense of ownership, and the willingness to help us build the future.

Partner Development Manager

• This role requires your business and industry expertise to help us position AWS as the technology platform of the future. As a Partner Manager, you’ll help execute on our strategy to build mind share and assist adoption of Amazon’s infrastructure web services including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS across our strategic business partners in South Africa often working at CXO level.
• You will be driving executive and field relationships with leading partners and impacting on Public Sector AWS adoption.

Your responsibilities will include:

•  Establishing and growing business and technical relationships, and managing the day-to-day interactions with these accounts
•  Creating and articulating compelling value propositions around AWS
•  Driving overall customer adoption, and interacting seamlessly with Public Sector customers and AWS team members across services

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• You should have significant Partner management or business development experience in the software or technology industry. This should include strong technical acumen, with a demonstrated track record of driving emerging or disruptive technologies like open source software, virtualization and Software as a Service delivery models.
• You will also need strong program management skills with a focus on delivering scalable programs supporting hundreds of customers and partners.

At Amazon we aim to be the most customer centric company on earth.
At Amazon Web Services, you’ll help deliver that vision. You’ll have the freedom to develop new ideas and chase new opportunities. You will be completely trusted to drive your own work, career and success.
At AWS, you can build your own future.
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PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

•  Degree educated or equivalent
•  Experience in South Africa Public Sector
• Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.