Sr. Sales Specialist, Database , Enterprise

About the role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the pioneer and recognized leader in Cloud Computing. Our web services provide a platform for IT infrastructure in-the-cloud that is used by hundreds of thousands of developers and businesses around the world. These customers range from start-ups, through to leading web companies and digital native organizations, all the way to Global 2000 companies in verticals including financial services, energy, telecommunications, retail, logistics, and technology.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for working with customers and AWS account teams to advance qualified sales opportunities for enterprise application workloads and data center migration projects. These opportunities will include migrating SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra and additional databases to the AWS cloud.
• You will be an integral part of your area or country specialized sales leadership team, and will apply globally developed migration and modernization sales plays locally in a data driven way.
• Your “build and scale out” skills will allow you to build programs for demand generation teams and AWS partners to advance database workload sales opportunities across a broad set of customers across the Americas.
• Your excellent verbal and written communication skills will allow you build sales enablement tools, evangelize our platform with our enterprise and mid-market customers as well as our valued partners
• Be a leader of virtual teams. You will guide Americas cross functional teams to drive database adoption on AWS across existing and new AWS customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• 5+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
• 4+ years of database administration experience, or Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience in Database Administration and strong troubleshooting skills (tuning and optimization, deadlocks, schema design) with any Relational Database Engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLServer)
• 5+ years of database migration and modernization projects experience.
• 8+ years as a Database Administrator (DBA) Specialist with hands-on database administration experience, including experience in Database Management & Maintenance, Performance Optimization, Security & Compliance, High Availability & Disaster Recovery, Data Migration & Integration and Collaboration & Support.