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Senior Solutions Architect, National Security Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon Web Services, Inc., Leesburg, Virginia, United States, 22075


Senior Solutions Architect, National Security Solutions Architecture Team

Job ID: 2787119 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.Amazon Web Services is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to support our US Government customers in the Northern Virginia / DC Metro area. (Relocation assistance is available.)

AWS Solutions Architects act as a “keystone”—bringing together distinct groups within AWS that support the Intelligence Community. This is a high-visibility role where you collaborate with and influence external stakeholders (our government customers) and internal AWS teams like Sales and Platform Engineering. As a Solutions Architect on the National Security team, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to your customers, consulting on a broad variety of complex and mission-critical technical challenges.

National Security Solutions Architects are regarded as technical “thought leaders” within the Intelligence Community who evangelize emerging technologies. Our SAs have played a critical role in the advancement of cloud computing capabilities within the Intelligence Community. SAs think outside of the box to deliver results and provide cost-effective, time-saving, and secure solutions. You’ll solve problems at both the business and technical levels by working backwards from customer requirements and envisioning new mechanisms and strategies.

This position offers you the unique opportunity to drive the AWS service roadmap to support our customers’ requirements within the cleared environment.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who align with our Leadership Principles and possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. You will partner with customers, AWS Sales, and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address Intelligence Community customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of AWS within the Intelligence Community.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about:

Being great fun to work with at AWS. In this role, you will love what you do and instinctively know how to make work fun.Enjoying working with Intelligence Community customers by educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions.Having a strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions, with past experience as a systems or support engineer and pre-sales experience.

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. The position further requires the candidate to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

This position can have periods of up to 25% travel.

Key job responsibilities

In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS.Ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform.Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions.Conduct training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community.Author or contribute to AWS customer-facing publications.Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

8+ years of specific technology domain areas experience.6+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.Experience effectively communicating technical solutions to diverse stakeholders.Experience defining technical solutions to meet business objectives.Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

10+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking experience.Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions.Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows.Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies.Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.Understanding of Federal Government application, server, and network security requirements.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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