Amazon - Arlington, VA
posted 26 days ago
Full-time - Entry Level
Arlington, VA
Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers
About the position
The Associate Cloud Consultant role at AWS Professional Services focuses on helping customers architect, develop, and re-engineer applications to leverage the AWS Cloud. This position is ideal for developers with hands-on experience in building cloud-native applications and offers opportunities to work on cutting-edge projects in a collaborative environment. The role involves significant travel and requires a U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
Responsibilities
- Help customers architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services.
- Architect and develop customer applications to be cloud optimized.
- Work as a technical specialist alongside customer business, development, and infrastructure teams.
- Provide deep software development knowledge with respect to cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming.
- Advise and implement AWS best practices.
- Work as both an infrastructure and application development specialist.
- Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field with a conferral date within May 2023 to May 2025.
- 1+ years of hands-on experience programming in languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, Node.js, or similar object-oriented language.
Nice-to-haves
- Exposure to Agile development methodologies.
- 1+ years of software development or application engineering with recent coding experience in modern programming languages such as Java, JavaScript (Node.js, Angular, JQuery, etc.), Python, Amplify, React, Typescript, Bash, Powershell, Lambda, C/C++, C#.
- Experience with source control repositories (e.g. GitHub/GitLab, SVN, Mercurial, and Perforce).
- Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, and Team City.
- Exposure to APIs, microservices, and distributed application architectures.
- Experience with AWS CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Saltstack, or Ansible in production environments.
- Experience with networking services, such as VPNs, DNS, load balancers, and firewalls.
- Experience with logging and monitoring tools, such as AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic, and Splunk.
- Experience with software development automated testing practices.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits package.
- Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation package.
