Senior Solutions Architect, Media & Entertainment, AWS Plus Team

About the role

This is not a generalist role. You'll need deep familiarity with media and entertainment production technology to earn trust with studio tech teams and drive meaningful outcomes across cloud-based content production, live sports streaming, and AI-powered content generation at scale.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical advisor to VP and Director-level technology leaders across Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios, and other media and entertainment organizations, maintaining regular engagements and translating their business goals into AWS cloud strategy.
• Architect and advise on solutions for media and entertainment workloads including virtual workstations, cloud-based editing, VFX and animation rendering, mastering, quality control, remote production, and live sports streaming infrastructure.
• Guide AI adoption across studio workloads, including Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock for image, video, and speech model hosting, and advise on GPU compute architecture including instance selection and optimization for production-scale inference and training.
• Work backwards from customer business needs to accelerate adoption of the most appropriate AWS services, with a focus on cost optimization, scalability, and operational efficiency for production-scale workloads.
• Collaborate with AWS account management, professional services, partner teams, and the broader Solutions Architecture community to deliver end-to-end technical coverage across media and entertainment opportunities and strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience solving problems with technology in the Media & Entertainment Industry
• Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing, or experience in developing and deploying LLMs in production on GPUs, Neuron, TPU or other AI acceleration hardware
• Experience architecting cloud solutions for media and entertainment workloads including virtual workstations, VFX and animation rendering, cloud-based editing, live streaming, or broadcast infrastructure
• Direct media and entertainment industry experience, including familiarity with production technologies such as Avid, Adobe Premiere, Maya, Houdini, Thinkbox Deadline, GrassValley, Evertz, Blacklight, Colorfront, or similar tools.

Benefits

A competitive package including shares, sign-on bonus, and a host of benefits. Includes comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement savings, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.