Solutions Architect III - AMZ9442132

Solutions Architect Iii

Employer: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Offered Position: Solutions Architect III

Job Location: Chicago, Illinois

Position Responsibilities:

• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.
• Analyze application portfolios, identify dependencies and common infrastructure platform components, and access migration feasibility.
• Architect hybrid AWS and on-premises solutions.
• Guide customers on architecture choices and inform them of the best practices to adopt AWS efficiently and cost-effectively.
• Ensure success in building, migrating, and deploying applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
• Brief senior executive team on customer progress of adopting the AWS and define future platform requirement for on-boarding and migration to AWS.
• Author AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers.
• Share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community.
• Engage with developers, system administrators, software architects, project manager, directors, and C-level customers to define cloud strategies and deployments.
• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and ensure that solutions are designed for successful deployment on AWS.

Position Requirements:

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or related occupations of Database Administrator, Support Engineer, Systems Engineer or another related occupation.
• Employer will accept Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation as equivalent to the Master's and one year of experience.
• Must have one year of experience in the following skill(s): (1) designing, implementing, and consulting with distributed applications; (2) architecting, provisioning, and deploying applications to public cloud environments or on-premises virtualized environments using C++, Perl, Python, or Java; (3) experience with database architecture, performance tuning, and either Big Data or Hadoop.

Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

40 hours/week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $153,600/year to $207,800/year.

Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.