Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Aws Professional

6+ years of professional experience in implementing complex IT systems at scale.
- Ability to gather customer requirements and deliver innovative solutions.
- Ability to lead highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale deployments.
- Experience with scripting (e.g. Shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell, etc).
- Experience with infrastructure as code, ops automation, and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible.
- Ability to mentor other colleagues on the latest cloud concepts and architectural vision.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills (both oral and written), presentation skills, and the ability to work well in a team.
- Customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation.
- Strong sense of customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive.
- Ability to travel to customer locations when needed
- BSc level technical degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Job summary

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re hiring highly technical cloud computing architects to help our customers innovate and transform their IT environment by moving to the cloud.

**Job Description**:
Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for our customers and partners. We collaborate across the entire AWS organization (including product and service teams), to deliver the right solution and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, are eager to deliver results, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and a voracious learner, it is you we are looking for. As a Professional Services Consultant, you will engage with technology executives, project leaders, developers, and partners to help them innovate even faster and be more cost effective using the latest cloud technologies.

We invest heavily in our team by continuously offering learning opportunities, sharing knowledge internally across all technical teams in AWS, and working on (customer & internal) projects that will broaden and deepen your technical knowledge.

Major responsibilities:

- Architect and evaluate highly innovative cloud-based solutions that are scalable and reliable.
- Review implementations and provide feedback on improvements in areas such as security, reliability and scalability.
- Lead customer workshops with technical leaders to gather requirements and to educate and demonstrate how various AWS services can be leveraged in their environment.
- Provide assistance building out cloud infrastructure, including scripting and delivering infrastructure as code solutions.
- Educate customers and fellow colleagues on how to develop high-quality architectures and innovate using the latest (cloud) technologies and best practices.
- Solve deep technical issues and develop solutions that extend service capabilities to meet customer needs. While at the same time, being in contact with the service teams to align the customer needs with the service development roadmap.
- Experience architecting on AWS or other cloud computing environments.
- Experience administering Linux or Windows-based systems in a cloud or virtualized environment.
- Experience managing data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications.
- Experience developing robust, highly scalable distributed systems.
- Experience with IT Strategy & Consulting services.
- Background in distributed systems, networking, or IT security.
- Track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing, enterprise environments.
- Experience in Financial Services Industry
- Hands on experience leading large-scale global IT transformation projects.
- Deep hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or current hands on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
- Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies
- Integration of AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.

Fluent in English and ideally, in another European language: German preferred.

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