About the Job
Are you passionate about collaborating with technology and business leaders to deliver cloud-based solutions? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking recent graduates and early career professionals interested in jump-starting a technical career as an Associate Solutions Architect. AWS TechU is a 12-month accelerated workforce development program focused on helping recent graduates and early career professionals build technical and professional skills to jump-start technical careers at AWS. The program features a six-month cohort-based training followed by six months of on-the-job training. You will complete a specialized curriculum, shadow AWS experts, and receive coaching to help you succeed in your new role. The curriculum is delivered through a mix of digital and classroom training, hands-on labs, and project work.
Key Job Responsibilities
As an Associate Solutions Architect, you’ll help your customers successfully implement cloud technologies. You’ll solve complex, technical challenges so your customers can focus on their business. This includes:
- Crafting scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.
- Driving technical solutions discussions and diving deep into the details with customer teams.
- Building relationships to understand our customers and acting as a trusted technical advisor.
- Influencing a variety of stakeholders from technical teams to executives.
- Educating and sharing best practices in the wider community, including presenting at events and writing white papers.
- Gathering feedback from customers and collaborating with engineering and service teams to shape product direction.
TechU Program Benefits
- Paid on-the-job training as a full-time employee
- Project-based learning and professional development
- Mentorship and support from AWS experts
- Real-world problem-solving experience
Basic Qualifications
- A current student graduating in 2024 or a recent graduate (0-2 years)
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Technology, or a related field OR equivalent training, certifications, and/or experience (0-2 years)
- Interest and aptitude to learn about and deliver cloud-based solutions to customers
- Experience with one of the programming languages like Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, C#, or C++ OR the interest and technical ability to learn a programming language
- Written and verbal communication skills, effectively articulating technical challenges and solutions to various audiences
- Fluent proficiency in English
- UAE National with family book
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
- Experience with Networking fundamentals including Security, Storage, or Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL), and Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows)
- Experience with the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies; experience with infrastructure as code, ops automation, and/or configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
- Knowledge of primary AWS services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53, and/or S3
- Experience implementing cloud-based technology solutions, either in a school project or while working for a company
