Delivery Consultant - Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Professional Services

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Delivery Consultant to join our team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, you'll work closely with customers to design, implement, and manage AWS solutions that meet their technical requirements and business objectives. You'll be a key player in driving customer success through their cloud journey, providing technical expertise and best practices throughout the project lifecycle. Possessing a deep understanding of AWS products and services, as a Delivery Consultant you will be proficient in architecting complex, scalable, and secure solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of each customer. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, assess current infrastructure, and propose effective migration strategies to AWS. As trusted advisors to our customers, providing guidance on industry trends, emerging technologies, and innovative solutions, you will be responsible for leading the implementation process, ensuring adherence to best practices, optimizing performance, and managing risks throughout the project.

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.

Key job responsibilities

You will work with customers and partners internalizing their context while using your business and technical skills to design solutions based on requirements and constraints. You will own and complete key tasks and deliverables, and collaborate with others to define and implement optimal, complete solutions based on stakeholders needs.

You will work towards customer business outcomes, ensuring there is a strong connection between delivery activities and business objectives.

As an experienced technology professional, you will be responsible for:

-Designing and implementing complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions tailored to customer needs

-Providing technical guidance and troubleshooting support throughout project delivery

-Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and propose effective migration strategies

-Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends and emerging technologies

-Sharing knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts

This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed.

A day in the life

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance to help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption.

A typical day may include working with a customer team to turn an agreed use case into a detailed solution design and delivery backlog. You may run a technical workshop to resolve technical blockers, pair with a customer engineer on code, or review an architecture decision with security and platform teams. You will regularly communicate progress, risks, and technical trade-offs to business and technical stakeholders. As delivery moves towards production, you will help establish operational processes, complete documentation and knowledge transfer, and ensure the customer team can operate and extend the solution after the engagement.

About the team

Amazon values diverse experiences and encourages candidates to apply even if they do not meet every preferred qualification. AWS teams bring together people with varied backgrounds and perspectives to help customers design, build, operate, and secure cloud environments. Employee-led affinity groups, inclusion events, knowledge sharing, and mentorship support an inclusive culture and continued professional growth. We also value work-life harmony and strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. You will join technical experts across AWS Professional Services who work with customers and AWS Partners to achieve business outcomes using cloud and AI technologies.

Basic qualifications

- Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments

- Experience and technical expertise (design and implementation) in cloud computing technologies

- Knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, databases, machine learning, and serverless technologies

- AWS certification, such as, AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification

- Demonstrated consulting skills, ideally through previous roles as a Consultant or Architect.

Preferred qualifications

- Experience in large scale migration- data center to data center or data center to cloud infrastructure

- AWS Professional level certification

- Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical / architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation

- BS degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent

- Experience with software development lifecycle, or experience in agile/scrum or related collaborative workflow

- Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product

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