Amazon.com - Herndon, VA
posted 2 days ago
About the position
Do you like helping U.S. Intelligence Community agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems? Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping these groups understand application architectures and integration approaches, and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success? Are you familiar with security best practices for applications, servers, and networks? Amazon Web Services is looking for highly talented and technical consultants to help accelerate our growing Professional Services business. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies. Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.
Responsibilities
- Be great fun to work with at AWS, embodying the credo of 'Work hard. Have fun. Make history'.
- Enjoy working with Intelligence Community customers, educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions.
- Have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions and participate in deep architecture discussions.
- Regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create innovative solutions built on AWS.
Requirements
- 3+ years of design/implementation/consulting experience with distributed applications or equivalent education experience.
- 1+ years of software development tools and methodologies.
- 3+ years working with Python.
- Technical degree or equivalent experience.
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.
Nice-to-haves
- 5+ years experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking.
- Experience in technology/software sales consulting or equivalent skills.
- Professional experience architecting/deploying/operating solutions built on AWS.
- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries.
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.
- Experience managing highly available data center operations with responsibility for infrastructure robustness.
- Understanding of Federal Government application, server, and network security requirements such as ICD 503, FISMA and FedRAMP.
Benefits
- Diverse experiences and encouragement to apply even if not meeting all preferred qualifications.
- Inclusive team culture with employee-led affinity groups.
- Ongoing events and learning experiences for diversity and inclusion.
- Mentorship and career growth opportunities.
- Work/life balance with flexibility in working culture.
