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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking recent graduates, early career professionals, and advanced career professionals with limited technical experience interested in jump-starting a career as an Associate Professional Services Consultant and participating in AWS development programs (Tech U or Professional Services Graduate programs) to advance their technical and professional skills.

Successful hires will be put through an accelerated workforce development program focused on helping recent graduates and early career professionals build technical and professional skills to jump-start technical careers at AWS. The program features cohort-based training followed by on-the-job-training. You will complete a specialized curriculum, shadow AWS experts, and receive coaching and on-the-job training to help you succeed in your new role.

Residents will also prepare for, and take the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect Associate and AWS Developer Associate certifications. During the program’s on-the-job training phase, residents will prepare for additional certifications that align to your role.

Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.

Associate Professional Services Consultant-
As an Associate Professional Services Consultant, you will partner with customers 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 around cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to expand use of AWS within organizations.

The program offers the opportunity to specialize in an area of interest such as DevOps, Application Development, Data and Analytics (including AI/ML) or Security.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Harmony
Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment AND WE encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded consultant and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Note:
The Associate Professional Services Consultant – Public Sector program will start September 2022.
Please submit your application in English.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. For an update on your status, or to confirm your application was submitted successfully, please login to your candidate portal. Please note that we are reviewing a high volume of applications and appreciate your patience.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's or Associate's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related science/technical fields, equivalent training, certifications, and/or experience.
• 0-2 years of relevant experience or currently enrolled with a graduation date in 2022.
• Good communication skills and ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions to both large and small audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• Experience with two or more of the following: Networking fundamentals; Security; Storage; Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL); Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows); Modern programming languages (Node.JS, Java, Ruby, C#, Python, or PHP).
• Business fluent English languages skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience implementing a cloud-based technology solution in a school project or while working for a company
• Experience with one or more of the following domains: systems administration (Linux/Window), network administration (DNS, IPsec, BGP, VPN, Load Balancing)