Solutions Architect II, AWS National Security Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Solutions Architect to support our US Space Force Customer. As a Solutions Architect on AWS National Security Team, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to AWS customers in the Intelligence Community – you are the "face of Amazon" to our customers; you will engage on a broad variety of technical challenges which are not just complex, but mission‑critical.

This is a high visibility role where you collaborate with, and influence, both external stakeholders and internal AWS teams including sales and platform engineering. National Security Solutions Architects (SAs) are regarded as technical "thought leaders" within the Intelligence Community who evangelize emerging technologies not only on a conceptual level, but also on a practical, architectural level. As a National Security SA, you’ll solve problems at both the business and technical levels – you'll work backwards from our customers’ requirements, envisioning new solutions and strategies we can leverage that would enable agencies to operate more efficiently and better execute on their mission objectives.

You'll make the puzzle pieces fit together from the technical side and deliver the offering to the customer quently, you will be responsible for mission‑critical solutions with National Security implications.

• Architect cloud‑based solutions in response to complex technical challenges
• In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a technical sales strategy to achieve revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS
• As a key member of the business development and sales team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services to AWS
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure geospatial 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 amongst the AWS solutions architect community
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer‑facing publications such as whitepapers and other reusable content
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support
• Travel up to 20% as required

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• Bachelor's degree, or CASP+ (CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner) or CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or Cloud+ or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• Current, active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance

• Experience working within software development or Internet‑related industries
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage

All candidates must be a US Citizen and must possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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