Solutions Architect II - AMZ9082484

Amazon Web Services, Inc. – Job ID: – Seattle, Washington – Position: Solutions Architect II – Compensation: $141,439–$177,600 per year.

Position Responsibilities

• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support. Analyze application portfolios, identify dependencies and common infrastructure platform components, and assess migration feasibility.
• Architect hybrid AWS and on-premises solutions.
• Guide customers on architecture choices and inform them of the best practices to adopt AWS efficiently and cost-effectively.
• Ensure success in building, migrating, and deploying applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
• Brief senior executive team on customer progress of adopting AWS and define future platform requirements for onboarding and migration to AWS.
• Author AWS customer‑facing publications such as whitepapers.
• Share best‑practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community.
• Engage with developers, system administrators, software architects, project managers, directors, and C‑level customers to define cloud strategies and deployments.
• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and ensure that solutions are designed for successful deployment on AWS.

Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field plus one year of experience in the role, or as a Database Administrator, Support Engineer, or related occupation.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field plus five years of progressive post‑baccalaureate experience in the role or related occupation (equivalent to Master's) plus one year of experience.
• One year of experience in each of the following skill sets:
  1. Designing, implementing, and consulting with distributed applications.
  2. Architecting, provisioning, and deploying applications to public cloud environments or on‑premises virtualized environments using C++, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, Node.js, or an equivalent object‑oriented programming language.
  3. Experience with database architecture, performance tuning, big data processing, mobile app development, or Big Data/Hadoop.
• 100% telecommuting permitted; work may be performed from anywhere in the U.S.

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional experience or certifications in AWS architecture, cloud migration, or related domains.

Job Details

• USA, WA, Seattle
• Corporate Operations

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