Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect - HPC​/ML, Computer Aided Engineering; CAE), Weathe

Overview

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems.

Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA!

• Design Customer Solutions:
  Collaborate with the wider AWS teams to help customers and partners architect HPC Solutions that leverage AWS Services
• Engage with Solution Architects, Account Managers, Professional Services, and Partners to define an HPC Engagement strategy for AWS operational territories and key accounts, with emphasis on public sector National Super Computing Centers, Government agencies, and/or AI/ML, CAE, Weather and accelerated computing with GPU
• Thought Leadership:
  Provide thought leadership on solutions that benefit customers through the use of AWS Services. This takes the form of contribution to external publications such as the AWS Compute Blog, whitepapers and reference architectures, as well as internal training of Solutions Architects, Professional Services Consultants, Technical Account Managers, and AWS Trainers
• Serve as a key member of the business development and accounting management team in helping to ensure customer success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform
• Assist solution providers with the definition and implementation of technical and business strategies
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the worldwide AWS solution architect community
• Understand AWS market segments, and industry verticals
• Understand and exploit the use of internal business support systems

Basic Qualifications

• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Bachelor's degree
• Deep HPC experience for workloads in a domain such as CAE, Weather Simulation, oil and gas, automotive / aerospace, financial services or pharmaceuticals
• Experience in architecting an HPC system and infrastructure with orchestration schedulers (e.g. Slurm, Torque, Symphony or Grid Server), parallel file systems (Lustre, IBM Spectrum Scale)
• Experience in deployment, tuning, benchmarking and management of HPC technologies in a multi-user environment
• Deep GPU knowledge in HPC and/or AI/ML frameworks

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Physics, or related fields
• Experience in a customer-facing role, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies
• Working knowledge of HPC schedulers and distributed/parallel file systems, underlying IT systems, and the HPC development process, high throughput and tight coupling approaches
• Working knowledge of containers such as Docker, Kubernetes, Singularity
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external stakeholders

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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