About the Job
As a Solutions Architect at AWS, you’ll build technical relationships with customers of all sizes and operate as their trusted advisor, ensuring they get the most out of the cloud at every stage of their journey. You’ll manage the overall technical relationship between AWS and our customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency to accelerate their challenging projects.
Internally, you will be the voice of the customer, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features. In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases. You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content, and new reference architectures (e.g., whitepapers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos, or conferences.
If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible while challenging the impossible, come build the future with us. This role is within the Middle East, North Africa & Turkey (MENAT) organization, and you would be working with Small-to-Medium Business (SMB) customers.
Key Responsibilities
- As a key member of the sales team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform in partnership with the sales team
- Formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue goals through the adoption of AWS
- Own the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS and make recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency
- Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, participating in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
- Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community
A Day in the Life
In this role, you will love what you do and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, willing to make an impact, and enjoy working with diverse customers. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of specific technology domain experience (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
- 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
