• Are you ready to take on the hardest challenges in Higher Education with cloud solutions?
• If you have a talent for thinking big, starting small, and bringing transformational thought to your customers, we would love to talk to you
• Please apply if you are passionate about the following:
• Helping our customers to design and create cloud computing architectures
• Our company credo: “Work hard. Have fun. Make history.” It’s critical to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers
• Deep-dive technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends
• With experience in the following key areas:
• Technical presentation experience – White board, small and large group presentations
• Technical – Web Services development/deployment experience, cloud computing
• Operational – Web site/services operations, management, and security
• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Desirable

• Our customers are public and private institutions, they are moving to the cloud, and their decisions impact the lives students, faculty, and administrators
• Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing business as part of the World Wide Public Sector practice
• As an AWS Vertical Solutions Architect supporting Higher Education athletics & advancement, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services (e.g. AWS EC2, AWS S3, Amazon Connect, and Amazon Q) directly with customers and our ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers
• Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects; defining implementation architectures, responding to RFPs, and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform
• As a Solutions Architect on our team, you will provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our Higher Education customers while working with a world business development team
• You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community
• You will gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture