Cloud Operations Architect

Would you like to join one of the fastest-growing organizations within Amazon Web Services (AWS), and help customers of all industries and sizes gain the best value and service from AWS? Cloud Operations Architects (COA) drive our customers' creative and transformative spirit of innovation across all technologies - including Compute, Storage, Database, Big Data, Application-level Services, Networking, Serverless, Deployment, Security and more. This is not a sales role, but rather an opportunity to be the principal technical advisor and 'voice of the customer' to organizations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 enterprises.

The Role

As a COA, you will help craft and execute strategies to drive our customers' adoption and use of AWS services - including EC2, S3, DynamoDB & RDS databases, Lambda, CloudFront CDN, IoT, and many more. Your technical acumen and customer-facing skills will enable you to effectively represent AWS within a customer's environment, and drive discussions with senior leadership regarding incidents, trade-offs, support, and risk management.

You will provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices, and proactively keep your customers' AWS environments operationally healthy. The close relationships developed with your customers will allow you to understand their business/operational needs and technical challenges, and help them achieve the greatest value from AWS. This position will require the ability to travel 10% or more as needed.

The COA is the centerpiece of value to our Enterprise Support customers. If you wish to be at the forefront of innovation, come join us

Key job responsibilities

1. You'll advise on solutions, provide technical guidance and advocate for the customer
2. Ensure AWS environments remain operationally healthy whilst reducing cost and complexity
3. Develop trusting relationships with customers, understanding their business needs and technical challenges
4. Using your technical acumen and customer obsession, you'll drive technical discussions regarding incidents, trade-offs, and risk management
5. Consult with a range of partners from developers through to C-suite executives
6. Collaborate with AWS Solutions Architects, Business Developers, Professional Services Consultants, and Sales Account Managers
7. With a bias for action, you'll proactively find opportunities for customers to gain additional value from AWS
8. Provide detailed reviews of service events, monthly & quarterly metrics, detailed pre-launch planning
9. Solve a variety of problems across different customers as they migrate their workloads to the cloud

About the team

Diverse Experiences: Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Minimum Requirements

- Experience in a similar role as a Technical Account Manager, Consultant, Solutions Architect, Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, Cloud Architect etc.

- Understand operational parameters and troubleshooting for four (2) of the following: Compute / Storage / Networking / CDN / Databases / DevOps / Big Data and Analytics / Security / Architecture / Applications Development in a distributed systems environment.

- External customer-facing experience with the ability to clearly articulate to small and large audiences.

- Ability to juggle tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment.

- Professional experience with AWS and/or other cloud offerings such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform etc.

- Programming or scripting skills with a combination of Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, C#, and/or PHP.

- Previous experience as a Software Engineer, Developer, Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer, etc.

- Understanding of DevOps practices and tools, including: Continuous Integration / Deployment, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef etc.

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