Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we're hiring highly technical cloud computing architects to help our partners develop technical expertise and capacity, while also collaborating with our customers and partners on key engagements. Our consultants will deliver proof-of-concept projects, topical workshops, and lead implementation projects. These professional services engagements will focus on key customer solutions such as web applications, enterprise applications, HPC, batch processing and big data, archiving and disaster recovery, education and government.

Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.

This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services as needed.

Basic qualifications

• BA/BS degree or 10+ years of professional or military experience

• 10+ years of IT implementation experience

• Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical / architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation

• Direct hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience

• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies

• Experience with integration of cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.

• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)

• Scripting and/or coding skills (Examples include but are not limited to: Java (OR) (OR) CloudFormation (OR) Terraform (OR) Powershell (OR) Bash)

• Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3)

• Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments

• Leading highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments

• Large scale migration experience Data Center to Data Center and/or Data Center to Cloud

• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, , Ruby, Powershell)

• Configuration management using CloudFormation, Chef & Puppet

• Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment

• Experience managing data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us