Senior Solutions Architect, California Education - Solutions Architecture

Overview

Do you like helping higher education customers implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems? Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping groups understand application architectures and integration approaches, and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success?

Are you familiar with security best practices for applications, servers, and networks? Would you like to be part of a sales group, but have your opinion valued as a technical resource as part of planning and strategies?

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing business as part of the World Wide Public Sector practice. As a Solutions Architect within AWS, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Amazon’s utility computing web services (e.g., AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS RDS, and AWS Cloud Front) directly with customers and our ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers.

Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects; defining implementation architectures, responding to RFPs, developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know‑how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform; and being a subject‑matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services.

As a Solutions Architect on our team, you will provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our customers while working with a world‑class sales and business‑development team. You will lead efforts to capture and share best‑practice knowledge among the AWS solution architect community. You will gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture.

• 8+ years of specific technology domain experience (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications and infrastructures
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries

• Master’s degree or above in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience with AWS services including S3, Redshift, Sagemaker, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, and EC2
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a technical role within a sales organization
• Knowledge of compliance and security standards across the enterprise IT landscape
• 6+ years of working cross‑functionally across several teams, or bachelor’s degree
• 2+ years of data center or mission‑critical facilities experience (e.g., hospital, military facility, public safety facility)

The base salary range for this position is listed below.

• USA, CA, East Palo Alto –  –  USD annually
• USA, CA, Mountain View –  –  USD annually
• USA, CA, Santa Clara –  –  USD annually
• USA, CA, San Francisco –  –  USD annually

Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance), EAP, mental health support, flexible spending accounts, and paid time off. 401(k) matching and parental leave are also available.

Amazon is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Los Angeles County applicants:
Job duties for this position include work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence; communicate effectively and respectfully; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and company policies. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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