Sr. Sales Specialist, Database , Enterprise; AWS

Key job responsibilities

You will be responsible for working with customers and AWS account teams to advance qualified sales opportunities for enterprise application workloads and data center migration projects. These opportunities will include migrating SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra and additional databases to the AWS cloud.

You will be an integral part of your area or country specialized sales leadership team, and will apply globally developed migration and modernization sales plays locally in a data‑driven way.

Your “build and scale out” skills will allow you to build programs for demand generation teams and AWS partners to advance database workload sales opportunities across a broad set of customers across the Americas.

Your excellent verbal and written communication skills will allow you to build sales enablement tools, evangelize our platform with our enterprise and mid‑market customers as well as our valued partners.

Be a leader of virtual teams. You will guide Americas cross‑functional teams to drive database adoption on AWS across existing and new AWS customers.

The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to drive an engagement and interact at the CxO / VP level to drive awareness, as well as a background that enables them to credibly interact with IT leaders, software developers, and infrastructure and applications architects. He/she should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions, and work across the business to set vision, objectives and to build consensus.

A keen sense of ownership, drive, and desire to dive deep is a must.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• 5+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
• 4+ years of database administration experience, or Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience in database administration and strong troubleshooting skills (tuning and optimization, deadlocks, schema design) with any relational database engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLServer)
• 5+ years of database migration and modernization projects experience
• 8+ years as a database administrator (DBA) specialist with hands‑on database administration experience, including experience in database management & maintenance, performance optimization, security & compliance, high availability & disaster recovery, data migration & integration and collaboration & support

• Experience working with end‑user or developer communities
• Experience with RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Redshift and/or other RDBMS systems
• Knowledge of SQL, Linux, OLAP, and relational, No
  
  SQL & multi‑dimensional databases
• Experience with industry standard tools and scripting languages (Python or Perl) for automation
• Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS), database systems (SQL and No
  
  SQL), AI tools for development productivity, contributing to open‑source projects, and/or version control systems
• Knowledge of No
  
  SQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra)

The base salary range for this position is  -  USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and sales incentives. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for supplemental life plans, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

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