Principal Solutions Architect, Storage, WWSO Storage SA Team
About the role
AWS is looking for an experienced Storage Solutions Architect to serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Amazon FSx for Lustre. You will be a technical authority working closely with service teams to drive innovation and adoption while supporting field teams and strategic customers in HPC and GenAI use cases. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable diving deep into storage service internals with engineering teams and explaining complex architectures to technical decision-makers.
You will partner with AWS storage service teams to influence roadmaps, document best practices, and drive feature adoption through technical content creation and industry event presentations. Travel requirements are approximately 25%, primarily for speaking engagements and technical events.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary technical specialist for FSx Lustre, working closely with the service team to drive feature adoption and customer success
- Partner with FSx Lustre GTM/Product teams to develop and execute technical strategies that drive service growth
- Provide architectural guidance to customers implementing high-performance computing (HPC) and machine learning workloads using FSx Lustre
- Create technical content, deliver workshops, and speak at events to educate customers on FSx Lustre best practices
- Capture and advocate for customer feedback to influence the FSx Lustre roadmap
- Collaborate with field SA teams to support complex customer opportunities and technical challenges
- Mentor other SAs on FSx Lustre architecture patterns and use cases
Requirements
- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
- Technical domain expertise in enterprise storage technologies, with particular depth in file and data storage solutions in the cloud
- Previous experience with AWS is preferred
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
- Strong presentation and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
- Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off and parental leave
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Ongoing events and learning experiences, including Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences
- Mentorship and career growth resources
Pay
- USA, CA, San Francisco: $210,200 - $284,300 USD annually
- USA, CO, Denver: $182,800 - $247,300 USD annually
- USA, MA, Boston: $182,800 - $247,300 USD annually
- USA, VA, Arlington: $182,800 - $247,300 USD annually
- USA, VA, Herndon: $182,800 - $247,300 USD annually
- USA, WA, Seattle: $182,800 - $247,300 USD annually
Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.