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Are you a passionate technologist who enjoys collaborating with customers and who can influence and drive innovation in Victoria's education industry?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Solution Architect to work with education industry Public Sector customers to architect cloud-based solutions that transform their organisation.
About the Role
At AWS, customer obsession is in our DNA. As a trusted advisor to your customers, you will articulate their broad AWS cloud strategy and work along side them as they navigate their cloud journey. You will work collaboratively with AWS sales, business development, solutions architecture, support, services and product teams to craft highly scalable, performant and resilient cloud architectures that support the customer’s business objectives and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) 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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
This is a customer facing role, so you must be comfortable speaking and influencing senior stakeholders and be a trusted advisor to both internal and external audiences. You must have experience in architecting classic solutions across a wide variety of platforms and solutions spaces with specific recommendations on topics such as hardware performance, clustering and load balancing, DevOps, HA/DR, networking & data architectures. At AWS, you’ll evolve modern architectures based on advanced concepts like AI, Machine Learning, Serverless, NoSQL, IoT and robotics to influence the art of the possible. Couple all that with education industry experience, a baseline knowledge of, or even certification in AWS, and this role is made for you!
In return we provide you the chance to work with some of the smartest minds from around the world who are leading the way in cloud-based architecture design. On a daily basis you will be challenged to think differently, learn more, and build elegant solutions.
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Key job responsibilities
Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and success of specific business initiatives and projects, and expertise in AWS technologies as well as broad experience with how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.
- Responsible for the broad AWS cloud strategy within multiple customers, helps the customer articulate and navigate their cloud journey, and is accountable for ensuring tactical activities and point projects are in alignment with the overall technical strategy
- Own technical engagements, and help ensure a timely and successful delivery of value. (Delivery is typically done by AWS consultants and partners)
- Exhibit leadership within a very sophisticated IT landscape and become the trusted adviser to different stakeholders in the customer’s organisation’s hierarchy, enabling others to become cloud champions
- Be a thought leader and comfortable in speaking in public. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many knowledge sessions to transfer learnings to AWS customers
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS architecture community including authoring or contributing to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers and blogs.
- Act as a technical liaison between customers, engineering teams and support
- Demonstrate the “art of the possible” using demonstrations and proof-of-concept code.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of 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
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Mentorship and Career Growth
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BASIC 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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