Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Aws Proserve

Relevant IT implementation experience
- Relevant hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or current hands on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
- Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell, Cloudformation, Terraform).Strong practical Linux, Windows and Container-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
- Relevant experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required
- Relevant experience with integration of cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
- Relevant experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)
- Fluency in English and Spanish (written and verbal)

Job summary

Job responsibilities

Deliver value - high quality delivery of a variety of customized engagements with partners and enterprise customers.

Engage customers - collaborate with enterprise sales managers to develop strong customer and partner relationships. Develop trusted relationships with customer CIOs, CTOs, IT functional leaders and business sponsor executives

Develop Partner ecosystem - establish executive and technical relationships with key integrators (SIs), software vendors (ISVs) and managed services providers (MSPs) who are offering cloud based IT services and solutions. Deliver joint proposals and joint engagements to help partners succeed in large, complex customer engagements using AWS.

Coach and teach - collaborate with AWS field sales, technical sales, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS platform services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon RDS database services, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), etc.

Be a customer advocate - Work with AWS engineering teams to convey partner and enterprise customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps. Influence roadmap changes to accelerate customer adoption and value.

About Us

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
- Customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
- Hands on experience leading large-scale global IT transformation projects, including deep understanding of ITIL, TOGAF and other common IT frameworks.
- Demonstrated industry leadership in the areas such as IT service management, cloud computing, or IT Strategy.
- Track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing, enterprise environments.
- Use of AWS services in distributed environments with Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
- Visible IT Industry thought leadership on relevant topics related to the enterprise cloud-based IT operating model
- Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3).
- Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell).
- Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.