Amazon Web Services is seeking a Storage Solutions Architect to support our US Federal customers.
At Amazon, we've been investing deeply in building the right solutions that allow customers to derive the most value from their storage infrastructure. The AWS US Federal Specialist Team is looking for a Storage Solutions Architect, who will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) helping customers to design complex solutions. As part of the World Wide Public Sector team, you will work closely with US Federal customers to enable large-scale use cases and drive the adoption of advanced AWS services. You will interact with other Solution Architects in the field, providing guidance on their customer engagements, and you will develop white papers, blogs, reference implementations, and presentations to enable customers to fully leverage AWS.
Our Specialist Solutions Architects are regarded as technical “thought leaders” within the Storage Community who evangelize emerging technologies not only on a conceptual level, but also on a practical, architectural level. Our SA’s play a critical role in the widespread adoption and advancement of cloud computing capabilities within the Storage Community. They think outside of the box to deliver results and provide solutions that are cost-effective, mission-focused, and secure. On our team, you will work backwards from our customers to develop AWS storage solutions and migrate complex workloads to the AWS cloud.
Key job responsibilities
- Be a subject matter expert on AWS storage services for our Account teams and customers.
- Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
- Provide advanced technical knowledge to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.
- You will have the technical depth and business experience to deploy storage and data strategies
- Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.
- Partner with Sales Specialist teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.
- Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide.
- Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.
A day in the life
The US Federal Specialist SA team positions AWS as the best place to generate insights by putting customers data to work. As a Specialist Solutions Architect on team supporting Worldwide Public Sector customers, you will own technical engagements, define implementation architectures, and be a subject-matter-expert for customer solutions and technical architectures. By advancing successful customer outcomes on AWS—such as more scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient architectures—we enable customers to shift their IT resources to focus on innovation.
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