Delivery Consultant - Database, AWS Professional Services, AWS Professional Services

Database Delivery Consultant

Are you an experienced commercial or open-source database platform specialist? Do you like to solve the most complex and high scale data challenges and help organizations understand and use cloud computing web services to do big new things faster, at a lower cost? The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Database Delivery Consultant to help customers implement database transformations and realize business opportunities. You will collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements and will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects in order to migrate customer environments to AWS cloud based database platforms. Our professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions such as high volume mission critical OLTP/OLAP environments, batch data processing, designing and deploying future state petabyte-scale data warehouse service and building and/or designing reference configurations to enable our customers and influence AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB and Redshift adoption. The databases team provides direct to customer, back office and packaged delivery consulting services to customers remotely from a centralized location. Our consultants are builders and deliver projects, technical workshops, and lead implementation projects with customers around the globe. These professional services engagements focus on customer solutions such as, web applications, enterprise applications, high performance computing, batch processing, big data, archiving, disaster recovery, migration, security risk and compliance.

Key job responsibilities as an experienced technology professional include:

• Employ customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, standard methodologies, project management and risk mitigation.
• Work closely with AWS Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams to help ensure the success of project consulting engagements with customer.
• Work directly with customers' technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on the understood requirements.
• Think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment.
• Analyze on-premises database environments such as Oracle, SQL Server, or other Commercial DB Engines to Open-Source Engines like Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL or RedShift, DynamoDB.
• Work with customers to migrate their database environments to AWS. This may include but is not limited to Re-Host database platform on AWS, Upgrade/Optimize for AWS, Re-Factor to open-source database platform on AWS.
• Consult for optimal design of database environments, analyzing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance.
• Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems.

This is a customer-facing role with potential travel to customer sites as needed.

About the team

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