Solution Architect, Well Architected Reviews
Summary
Solution Architect partnering with AWS Well-Architected COE, Partner and Account SAs, and Professional Services to help customers run Well-Architected Reviews, remediate findings, and adopt cloud-native workloads on AWS. Day-to-day work combines deep AWS technical expertise with customer-facing enablement and partner technical guidance.
This person will work with our Well Architected – COE team, Partner Solutions Architects, Account Solution Architect from AWS and Professional Services to help Customers acquire and maintain a proficiency in conducting Well-Architected Reviews, reviewing the results with the customers, and encouraging and providing the personnel to resolve any critical items or improvements detected in the customers' workloads. The ideal candidate will be just as comfortable talking with the implementation engineers, Application Development teams, Engineering teams, CTO, CIO, IT Head.
We want to help our customers build cloud native applications, and adopt new ways of thinking about technologies solutions. We are extending an information rich product that uses advanced tooling to deliver the right content and advise to customers as they build and operate their workloads on AWS.
You will enjoy the opportunities in this role if you like working with WAR COE, Internal Cloud Engineering teams, Architects and helping them with their adoption and execution of this solution with end customers.
- In this role, you will need to be technically capable and credible in shaping the customer and solutions-focused skills of AWS partners with respect to conducting AWS Well-Architected reviews, implementing best practices to remediate any critical issues, and educate customers and partners on how to improve their implementations.
- You will help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS across the partner community by emphasizing the importance of implementing AWS Well-Architected best practices. Working backwards from the customer business challenges, you will define specific partner technical enablement strategies which enable our customers to become more successful on AWS.
- You will have the opportunity to dive deep on our AWS technologies and will work side by side with some of the top technical talent in the industry.
Responsibilities:
- This is an opportunity to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption and growth.
- Deep technical skills and trusted advisor in Solution Architecture and Cloud Computing.
- Customer facing skills, ideally gained within a partner organization.
- A demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
- Own the technical relationship and deliverables for system integrators.
- Assist partners on diving deep on AWS Services as they develop presentation from the Well-Architected Reviews and use the Well-Architected Tool.
Requirements
- 5+ years in a senior technical position with customer facing interactions, and 10+ years overall experience.
- Technical knowledge of common technology systems is required.
- Fundamental knowledge of the basic concerns for operations, security, reliability, performance, and cost.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including group leadership and executive presentations.
- Passion for learning of new technologies and methods.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working with System Integrators and knowing the market landscape.
- Experience writing technical course content, technical articles, and blog posts.
- Hands-on use of AWS services (or Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud) in distributed environments.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle methods.
- Experience in large scale migrations to AWS or implementing and operating large scale applications on AWS.
- AWS Certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Professional is must, and AWS Developer, AWS DevOps Engineer, Associate Level or Above are desirable)
Benefits
We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, caste, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.
Competitive Salary
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