DESCRIPTION
The next great evolution of cloud computing is serverless. Are you passionate about the cloud? Do you want to help mold the future of how customers build amazing applications with AWS? Are you a deeply technical individual who is looking to shape the future of serverless technologies? If you have the right blend of passion, enthusiasm, customer advocacy, curiosity and creativity, you may just be right to join our Specialist Solution Architecture team, focusing on serverless technologies.
Increasingly, developers are moving to a "cloud native" application development approach. Serverless Computing allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about infrastructure or server based operations. With serverless computing, your application still runs on servers, but all the server management is done by AWS. At the core of serverless computing is AWS Lambda and API Gateway. AWS Lambda lets you run your code without provisioning or managing servers. With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service, and it takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability. Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed API service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. Additionally, API Gateway provides companies with an easy way to build/integrate their APIs with the AWS Marketplace and start monetizing their processes and data. These powerful capabilities build on the wider serverless ecosystem of tools including Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Cognito, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SQS and SNS, Amazon Kinesis, AWS IoT, Amazon S3, etc.
Key job responsibilities
- Design Customer Solutions - Collaborate with Account Managers, Solutions Architects and support teams to help customers learn and use AWS serverless services.
- Devise Strategy - Work with Account Managers and Solutions Architects to define a strategy for engaging key accounts.
- Thought Leadership Provide global thought leadership on the serverless application lifecycle and how AWS Services can benefit customers. This takes the form of contribution to external publications such as AWS Blogs, whitepapers and reference architectures, as well as the internal training of Solutions Architects, Professional Services Consultants and Technical Account Managers.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst both our customers, and our worldwide solution architect community
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job
description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasnt followed a traditional path, or
includes alternative experiences, dont let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered
cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500
companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is
why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home,
theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion
that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations
on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our
uniqueness.
Mentorship and Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find
endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-
rounded professional.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Alpharetta, GA, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | San Jose, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 5+ years experience in working with customers who are deploying cloud solutions
- 1+ years experience with event driven architecture or microservices
- 1+ years hands on experience with Serverless technologies or working with technologies such as: Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, MQ, and/or Step Functions
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong presentation, sales, and negotiation skills
- Excellent business judgement and the demonstrated ability to think and act both strategically and tactically
- Meticulous attention to detail: ability to juggle many tasks in parallel without lowering the quality bar
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Exceptional interpersonal and relationship management skills
- Demonstrated effectiveness working across multiple business units to achieve results
- Hands on experience leading large-scale serverless delivery projects
- Hands on experience working with event-driven or microservices architectures
- Demonstrated industry leadership in the fields of application development, agile delivery and devops
- Ability to work in a polyglot environment flexibility around learning new programming languages and tools
- Hands on experience as a software delivery engineer, manager, system development engineer or developer support engineer
- Track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of business environments such as large enterprises and start-ups. Experience working within the software development or Internet industries is highly desired
- Understanding of application, server, web services and network security is highly desired
- Technical degrees in computer science, software engineering, or math highly desired; working knowledge of modern software development practices and technologies such as agile methodologies and DevOps is highly desired
- AWS Professional Certification, eg. AWS Solutions Architect Professional
- Ability to work with training development and delivery both internally and externally
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $105,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $204,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
