Cloud Infrastructure Architect , A2C

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth, business knowledge, and strong interpersonal skills. You will partner with customers and AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices for cloud-based solutions.

You will join as part of the AWS Professional Services (ProServe) Associate to Consultant (A2C) practice, which focuses on the accelerated career development of university graduates and early career professionals.

Our team members work with enterprise customers locally, regionally, domestically, and internationally. As such, this role has up to 100% travel associated. This role will be expected to work from customer sites throughout the UK, in particular the greater London area and Kent., As an Associate Cloud Infrastructure Architect is an emerging leader, with previous experience architecting and building solutions for the cloud. The Associate Cloud Infrastructure Architect will assist on projects, providing best practice advice to customers. The ideal candidate will have experience implementing highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software, automating infrastructure provisioning and continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines, and optimizing cloud infrastructure operation.

About the team
AWS ProServe engages in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about customer success. 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.

You will also have the opportunity to create white papers, write blogs, build demos and other reusable collateral that can be used by our customers. Most importantly, you will work closely with our Solution Architects, Data Scientists, and Service Engineering teams.

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

AWS ProServe is dedicated to supporting new team members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
- Familiarity with Networking fundamentals, Security, Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL), Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows)
- Experience developing software code in one or more programming languages (Java, JavaScript, Python, etc).
- Strong technical communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to clearly convey complex technical information to diverse audiences., Implementation experience with AWS services
- Experience with systems administration (Linux/Windows) or network administration (DNS, IPsec, BGP, VPN, Load Balancing).
- Troubleshooting: Experience with QA, testing, helpdesk, IT support, or any technician or quality assurance type work.
- Passion for experiencing new technologies.
- AWS Certification(s), such as Solutions Architect Associate and/or Data Analytics Specialty.

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