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Description
As a Solutions Architect at AWS, you’ll build technical relationships with customers of all sizes and operate as their trusted advisor, ensuring they get the most out of the cloud at every stage of their journey.
You’ll manage the overall technical relationship between AWS and our customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency to accelerate their challenging projects.
Internally, you will be the voice of the customer, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features.
In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases.
You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. whitepapers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).
If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible, while challenging the impossible, come build the future with us.
This role is within the UKIR organization and you would be working with Small-to-Medium Business (SMB) customers.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
London, GBR
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a professional field or military
Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with end user or developer communities
Experience designing, building, refactoring or operating large scale and impactful IT systems - either on premises or in the cloud
Working knowledge of cloud native architectures
Knowledge of a modern programming language (Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java, etc.) and/or scripting, Infrastructure as Code etc.
In-depth working knowledge in a technology domain such as distributed internet-scale web or mobile applications, DevOps, Serverless, Big Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning
Experience working in a customer-facing role or a role which involved public speaking
AWS certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional) or other industry certification
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