Latest Jobs at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Description

At Amazon Web Services (AWS) we are changing the future of IT. As part of the core AWS account team you will help our customers to arrive in that future. You will work across AWS teams and apply your technical and program management expertise to serve some of the largest and globally diverse enterprises in the world.

Roles and Responsibilities

You will collaborate with customers, sales, solutions architecture, software development and service teams to deliver solutions that solve some of the most complex and challenging technology problems our customer face. You will work with customers and internal stakeholders to scope work, set business goals, identify appropriate resources, track and report on progress and develop schedules to speed customer adoption and migrations. You monitor customer performance by assessing risks, anticipating bottlenecks, providing critical issue management, balance trade-offs, and encourage risk tasking to maximize business value.

At AWS we value critical thinking, self-motivation, and the ability to deal with ambiguity. You should have a cool head, predicating strong technical development, be detail-oriented, have excellent problem solving abilities, and be an exemplary communicator. Your technical expertise and operational excellence will influence your team’s decisions and help us drive secure and robust customer solutions. We love people who innovate, use data to make decisions, and can express themselves thoughtfully. We want you to be passionate about delivering a great customer experience, and love contributing to a team goal.


Basic Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to effectively deliver information at the C-suite/VP level
• Experience working with current web technologies (especially Cloud)
• Self-motivated problem solver; able to thrive in a dynamic and customer-focused environment
• Strong organizational and troubleshooting skills with precise attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to maintain composure in stressful situations, responds to customer needs quickly and effectively, adapts to change
• Highly analytical, technically proficient, and able to learn new tools and software quickly
• Strong listening skills; demonstrated ability to ask effective questions

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, Prince 2, PgMP, SAFe, or SCRUM/Agile certified
• 15+ project or program managing complex, large scale, IT/technical/engineering programs
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or equivalent experience (Computer Science preferred)
• Direct experience implementing AWS/cloud services
• Deep understanding of software development/engineering lifecycle from conception to delivery
• Demonstrated leadership through influence
• Prior experience working with or managing teams leading large technical programs, particularly at high growth startups or Fortune 500 companies
• Working experience as a SCRUM master or leading a SAFe program
• Prior experience working in a Technology sales organization
• Superior written and verbal communication skills
• Business English language skills

Company - Amazon Web Services SA Pvt Ltd
Job ID: A1109828

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Description

Amazon Web Services is the industry’s leading cloud computing platform, a range of services for developers and IT professionals that promise to lower costs and transform how applications are built.
The Developer Advocate for Amazon Web Services will join a creative, experienced and energetic organization that is responsible for helping to drive the development and adoption of AWS services. In this role, you’ll combine your unbridled passion and enthusiasm with your unmatched creativity to generate grass-roots attention and support for AWS among key industry innovators and technologists.

Ideally, you’re someone who comes from a software and/or infrastructure background, but has an unmet need to be on stage guiding the broader industry towards a technology you firmly believe in. You have immediate credibility with Startups, Developers, Architects, IT Managers and / or CIOs. You love to share your passion with others and exhibit good judgment in selecting strategic opportunities to do so.

You don’t just want to be part of an industry movement, you want to be out front leading it.

Responsibilities

• Gaining industry recognition and credibility as a regular attendee, panelist and keynote speaker at AWS and third party technology conferences, trade shows and press events
• Developing and delivering compelling presentations, product demos, sample solutions, and discussions to help drive awareness and adoption of Amazon Web Services.
• Continuing to identify leads for potential partnerships and customer opportunities.
• Collaborating with internal teams to define the product road map, market positioning, community user groups and developer program initiatives.
• Creating and maintaining white papers, screencasts, demos and videos about AWS services along with emerging technologies and industry developments.
• Maintaining a strong and credible presence in social media channels relevant to developers
• Working with your worldwide counterparts to share best practices and help build a best-in-the-industry evangelism organization
   

Basic Qualifications
You have some or all of the following skills:

• Strong knowledge and experience with cloud computing infrastructure, application development platforms and popular programming languages
• Significant experience working in a technology advocacy or technical executive role
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related discipline. Master's level and above is desired.
• Superior oral and written communication skills in English
• Outstanding public speaking and presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel and ability to work autonomously

The Icing On The Cake

Preferred Qualifications

• Significant experience (8-10 yrs) in IT Infrastructure and/or software development, with special emphasis in areas of Compute, Storage, Databases, Networking, Application Services, Big Data and/ or distributed computing.
• Practical familiarity with cloud computing platforms, architecture work, systems or application design, development or operations.
• Working knowledge and exposure to social / online marketing coupled with prior experience in product definition, bring-to-market strategies and/ or setting an industry standard.
• A history of successful speaking engagements, industry influence and / or recognition in technology publications is preferred.
• Involvement in nurturing, engaging with, and growing developer communities

Company - Amazon Web Services SA Pvt Ltd
Job ID: A1247749

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Description

In this role you would be based out of Cape Town, working with high growth Startups customers in South Africa.
Startup Solutions Architects work hand in hand with technical co-founders, engineers and developers to help them make the most of the Cloud. They are at the crossroads of business and technology and engage with organizations at all stages of cloud adoption. Solutions Architects also take a leading role in creating and presenting technical content and best practices.

Solutions Architects own the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS and make recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency. They work to understand the customer's business needs and give prescriptive guidance on how to create business value with technology. To do this they collaborate with other teams such as account management, professional services, support, product teams and the AWS partner ecosystem.
In this role you will get to practice your creativity, linking technology to tangible solutions and educating Startups about the art of the possible. You will have the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of scenarios. (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Genomics, Analytics and Big Data, DevOps or Security).

The Solutions Architecture team is a diverse group of technologists from a variety of backgrounds. Practical knowledge of the AWS platform is desired but not required, provided you have a sound technical foundation and a desire to learn.
You will have the support to grow your expertise in industry and technology areas of depth. Every day you will learn something new from your customers, your peers and your own experiments.

At Amazon you will be encouraged and rewarded for doing what is right for the long-term success of the customer. We value your passion to discover, invent and build on behalf of customers.
Amazon has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity and inclusion. We seek builders from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.

Roles and Responsibilities

• As a Solutions Architect, you will work directly with customers to accelerate their projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes.
• You will own the technical relationship with the customer and operate as their trusted advisor. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide.
• Share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for the AWS platform.
• Create and capture best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts).
• Evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).
• Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by hiring, coaching and mentoring others.
• Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customer's outcomes..

Basic Qualifications

• Technical Degree (Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or equivalent) and/or relevant tech experience
• CTO/co-founder/architect experience for a VC-backed technology startup company or strong interest in the Startup ecosystem
• Experience of Software, Systems or Data Design
• Passion for technology and for learning
• Fluency in English

Preferred Qualifications
The following qualifications are desired but not required:

• Experience designing, building, refactoring or operating large scale and impactful IT projects - either on premises or in the cloud
• Knowledge of a modern programming language (Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java, etc.)
• In depth working knowledge in a technology domain such as distributed internet-scale web or mobile applications, DevOps, Serverless, Big Data, analytics, Machine Learning, highly secured workloads etc.
• AWS certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional)

Company - Amazon Web Services SA Pvt Ltd
Job ID: A1237864

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Description

Are you a migrations expert who has experience with executing large-scale migrations from on-premises to the AWS Cloud? Would you like to work with our customers to help them plan, prepare and execute large-scale migrations and leverage the benefits of the AWS Cloud? Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use cloud computing to do big new things faster and at lower cost? Do you want to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption? Do you like to work on-site in a variety of business environments, leading teams through high impact projects that use the newest application technologies? Would you like a career path that enables you to progress with the rapid adoption of cloud computing?
At AWS, we are hiring the best hands-on migration experts, who can help our clients and partners migrate their business-critical applications to take advantage of the global scale, elasticity, automation and high-availability features of the AWS cloud. Our consultants will collaborate with partner and client teams to determine migration strategies, build migration business cases, analyze application portfolios, perform application assessments, develop migration plans, design migration processes, implement migration tools, support the migration execution, and ensure operational integration. These professional services engagements will focus on leading our customers through large-scale migration programs using the AWS migration methodology, AWS migration services and AWS tools such as AWS Migration Hub, AWS Application Discovery Service and AWS Database Migration Service.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in leading large-scale migration programs with hands-on expertise in two or more of the following domains: migration strategy design, migration business case creation, application portfolio analysis, application assessment, migration process design, migration tool implementation, migration execution, or operational integration.
• 5+ years of experience as a technical specialist in customer-facing roles
• Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment
• Good experience with agile project management methodologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a program management role or similar
• Experience with migrating applications from on-premises to the AWS Cloud
• Hands-on experience with deploying and using migration tools (e.g. Double-Take, Racemi)
• Exposure to the AWS platform and its compute, storage, networking and migration services
• Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering or Math
• Understanding of virtualization technologies and system architectures that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
• Presenting at public events such as technology conferences, hackathons, etc.
• Experience working directly with customers and partners

Company - Amazon Web Services SA Pvt Ltd
Job ID: A1218673