Job summary

 Employ customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with technical and business teams.
 As a key member of the team, ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform
 Participate in architectural discussions and design exercises to create large scale solutions built on AWS and also be part of the development lifecycle.
 Identity workarounds for specific issues and corner scenarios observed during migration
 Automate solutions for repeatable problems
 Develop test plan and testcases to demonstrate application/database readiness post migration
 Work closely with application teams to ensure business functionality and SLAs are met
 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
 Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and AWS services
 Partner with the sales team to design solutions for customers that drive AWS adoption and revenue
 Conduct technical sessions for internal teams, partners and customers

Key job responsibilities

· Employ customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with technical and business teams.
· As a key member of the team, ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform
· Participate in architectural discussions and design exercises to create large scale solutions built on AWS and also be part of the development lifecycle.
· Identity workarounds for specific issues and corner scenarios observed during migration
· Automate solutions for repeatable problems
· Develop test plan and testcases to demonstrate application/database readiness post migration
· Work closely with application teams to ensure business functionality and SLAs are met
· 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
· Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and AWS services
· Partner with the sales team to design solutions for customers that drive AWS adoption and revenue
· Conduct technical sessions for internal teams, partners and customers

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 6+ years of experience in a technical position.
· 2+ years on any Cloud Platform (AWS, Azure, Google etc).
· Bachelor’s degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
· Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
· Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Powershell, Ansible, Terraform etc)
· Strong hands-on experience on CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Team city etc.
· Configuration management using CloudFormation and/or Chef/Puppet.
· Implementing experience with primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, ECS, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Route53 & S3)
· Deep hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale.
· Customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
· Leading highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments.
· Experience in performance optimization techniques
· High end Troubleshooting and Communication skills
· Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· AWS Solutions Architect/DevOps/SysOps Certified
· Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
· Experience in programming languages like Java/Python.
· Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
· Integration of AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
· Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.).
· Extended travel to customer locations may be required to sell and deliver professional services as needed