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Job summary
Do you love getting hands-on with technology and sharing your passion for cloud with the wider tech community?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Developer Advocate (DA) to join the Global DA Specialists team. In this position, you will join a creative, experienced and energetic organization that is responsible for helping to drive the development and adoption of AWS services. You will engage with Builders to help them in their cloud journey: explain how to integrate cloud services with their on-premises environment, guide them navigating the complexity of hybrid environment while they have to manage their IT heritage and new cloud native applications, and finally build and operate native cloud solutions.

Ideally, you’re someone who comes from a Cloud Engineering and/or IT operation background with experience transitioning to the Cloud. You have an unmet need to be on stage and/or build creative assets to guide the broader industry towards a technology you firmly believe in. You have immediate credibility with Cloud Engineers, System Administrators, IT operators and DevOps Engineers. You love to share your passion with others and exhibit good judgment in selecting strategic opportunities to do so.

You don’t just want to be part of an industry movement, you want to be out front leading it.


Key job responsibilities
· As a Builder, you will experiment, dive deep to deliver audience-focused technical presentations, and to curate and build actionable technical content. You'll keep your technical skills updated constantly, always maintaining a baseline understanding of the latest core AWS services, and then adding breadth and depth as required by their specialty or audience needs.
· As a Strategist, you'll keep the "big picture" in mind and always look for opportunities to maximize customer value, constantly driving efficiencies on processes and mechanisms.
· As a Teacher, you'll provide technical guidance for Builders to be successful with virtualization, cloud computing and other infrastructure related topics, simplifying the complex and tailoring your message to the needs of the audience.
· As an Ambassador, you'll build long-term relationships with Builders and their communities, feeding back insights to help shape AWS Builder engagement strategy, programs and products. You'll also identify and develop external AWS advocates, helping to scale our programs.
· As an Influencer, you'll use your unique personality and authentic content to help attract Builders to AWS and keep them engaged and inspired to Build.

A day in the life
Developers Advocates represent AWS externally in the technical community, they inspire and guide Builders in their journey by producing technical artifacts (videos, blog posts, code sample, workshops, presentations...). They meet Builders where they are (in-person, virtually, at every steps of their journey).
Developer Advocates represent Builders internally within the Service Teams and act as the voice of the community internally. They identify gaps in our products, services and documentations. They drive feedback gathering from users for product development teams to review and act upon. They have an impact on product roadmaps.

AWS DAs share more details in this video: https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/urn:li:ugcPost:6846224992284356608/


About the team
AWS's Developer Relations (DevRel) thrives to make AWS the best place on Earth for Builders to create and operate applications. In DevRel, Developer Advocate Specialists is a diverse team deployed globally.
DA Specialists work both externally with the technical community to drive adoption of AWS solutions and internally with Service Teams to build better products and features.
The team covers themes like Data (AI/ML, Databases...), Security, Modern App Development, Cloud Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies. They work with other DAs in regions to scale their efforts and engage with Builders all over the world.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Background in any of the following: system administration, virtualization, IT Operations, DevOps.
· Extensive years of hands-on technical experience (Linux, virtualization, Windows...)
· Experience in a customer facing role or a role which involved public speaking
· Can produce and review Infrastructure-as-Code samples

NOTE: Please ensure your CV includes links to content you've created (videos of talks, blog posts, demo code, etc) as well as details of any developer community activities.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experienced in customer-facing or developer community facing roles
· Industry influence and/or recognition in technology publications
· Demonstrable following in social and technical channels such as Twitter, YouTube, GitHub, or Twitch
· Ability to translate technical features into tangible customer business benefits
· A history of successful speaking engagements,
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
· Willingness to travel (up to 20%)



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