Solutions Architect, AGS-APJ-India-SA

Are you excited to work with the team that enables industries to build innovative solutions using AWS, scaling to serve billion+ Indians?

The team in AWS India is looking for Solutions Architects, who can work with our customers to deliver on a strategy to build mind share on AWS cloud, who have built world class scaling infrastructure and exceptional solutions. Indian industries are profoundly changing everyday life of billion+ Indians through their digital native solutions and exploding digital contents. Your broad responsibilities will include; owning technical engagement and ensuring success around specific implementation projects, developing a deep expertise in AWS as well as broad knowledge around how applications and solutions are constructed using AWS services.

An ideal candidate will possess customer-facing skills that will allow her/him to represent AWS India demonstrating strategic thinking with senior executives, advising on the architecture, design IT systems, deploying at scale, evangelizing adoption of cloud and AI-ML technologies among developers. S/He should have experience with multiple technology patterns and frameworks and is able to trade-offs between solutions, performance and cost. Candidate should be a continuous learner with the ability to do hands-on, identify repeatable architecture patterns, know best practices and demonstrate the art of possibility.

Key job responsibilities

The selected candidate will act as a trusted advisor with M&E/Cross Industry customers responsible for mapping their business requirements to solutions; building relationships with stakeholders; define performance requirements; compare various design patterns; discern between variety of Generative AI, AI/ML, data, analytics, compute, containers, and serverless technologies; architect for high availability and scaling requirements, while minimizing the cost and meeting security standards; build resilient solutions; advise on building DevOps process and observability solutions; conduct well architected reviews; partner with AWS Specialists to implement innovative solutions; collaborate with the Service teams to identify feature gaps suggesting new features; present to customer C-suite and technical communities on architecture patterns, best practices, case studies.

Position can be based out of Gurugram / Bengaluru

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A day in the life

The Solutions Architect team at AWS is responsible for helping customers successfully implement cloud technologies. In a typical week you will meet multiple customers, and you will collaborate with them on designing and operating well-architected solutions. You will earn their trust and show them the art of the possible, educating them around the capabilities of AWS. Partnering with internal teams and experts, leveraging a deep knowledge of our tools and products, you’ll craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address our customers’ business problems. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to continuously learn and innovate daily.

About the team

AWS Global Sales (AGS) 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. Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Inclusive Team Culture here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship and Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic qualifications

- Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)

- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS, or experience with project management

- Experience in one or more of the following areas: software design or development, content distribution/CDN, scripting/automation, database architecture, IP networking, IT security, BigData/Hadoop/Spark, operations management, service oriented architecture

- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)

- . 10+ years of IT development/consulting experience with 5+ years of architecture, design, implementation and deployment on large scale systems using advanced solutions such as AI-ML/bigdata analytics/database/ containers or similar

Preferred qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent

- Experience working with and presenting to C-level executives, IT, and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent

- AWS certification, or Associate's degree or above

- 2)Experience architecting cloud solutions for media and entertainment workloads

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