Sr. Compute Solutions Architect, Amazon EC2 Core

Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Arlington, VA · Today

EngineeringFull-time

About the Role

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems.

The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), which is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. We work backwards from our customer's most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses.

The Amazon EC2 Solutions Architecture team was created to make sure customers can deploy the most scalable, and most performant Compute architectures possible. You'll play an important role as an advocate with our service teams to make sure we are building the right products. The team is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect who will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for our supporting customers across the wide range of EC2 instances.

~30% travel required

Key Job Responsibilities

Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap
Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers' largest and most critical business challenges
Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re:Invent, etc.
Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives
Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide
Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures

Basic Qualifications

7+ years of experience in design/implementation/operations/consulting with distributed applications
Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
Proficiency with debugging and troubleshooting applications developed in Java, Ruby, Python, C/C++, Go, or Rust language(s) and frameworks
Experience deploying and running containers at scale including orchestration technologies like EKS, ECS and Karpenter
Breadth of expertise deploying multi-az and multi-region applications on a public cloud provider

Preferred Qualifications

Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
AWS certification, such as AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification, or Associate's degree or above

Pay & Benefits

Base salary ranges by location:

USA, CA, Santa Clara: $176,600.00 - $239,000.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York: $169,000.00 - $228,600.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually

Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.