Associate Cloud Consultant, Application Development, AWS Professional Services, National Security

$88,400 - $192,600/Yr

Amazon - Annapolis Junction, MD

Full-time - Entry Level

Annapolis Junction, MD

10,001+ employees

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

The Associate Cloud Consultant role at Amazon Web Services (AWS) focuses on developing cloud-native applications and providing technical expertise to customers in the National Security sector. This position is designed for recent graduates and early career professionals, offering opportunities to work on cutting-edge projects that leverage AWS services. The role involves significant travel and collaboration with various teams to architect and optimize applications for the AWS cloud.

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 between 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.
• 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.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with software development automated testing practices.
• Exposure to Agile development methodologies.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ranging from $88,400 to $192,600 based on location and experience.
• Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits.
• Opportunities for mentorship and career growth.
• Work-life balance initiatives.
• Diversity and inclusion programs.