Solutions Architect, UK Public Sector - Defence

Solutions Architect, UK Public Sector - Defence

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Solutions Architect to join our thriving technical community and growing business in the UK as part of the Defence Technical Team. You will join a friendly and supportive team, working together to bring the latest in disruptive cloud computing technologies to organisations serving our defence customers and partners. Our UK Public Sector teams help customers to build a deeper understanding of hyper-scale cloud technology and application architectures, and they have the consultative skills required to deliver successful outcomes for the customer.

As an AWS Solutions Architect, you will have ownership of the technical relationship with customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, operational efficiency and best-practice architectures.

Internally, you will be an advocate acting on behalf of the customer to help drive continual improvements to the AWS platform, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features and services. You will also help shape the future of the Solutions Architecture organisation by helping to hire, coach and mentor others.

In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to implement or document cloud-native reference architectures with the AWS Solutions Architect community.

You will participate in the creation and sharing of recommended practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).

If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible, while investigating the impossible, come build the future with us.

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Minimum Requirements:

1. Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
2. Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
3. Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
4. A degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Mathematics / Technology / Related science/technical field OR equivalent training, certifications, and/or experience
5. Knowledge of AWS services
6. Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
7. Experience working with end user or developer communities
8. Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
9. Experience with scripting (e.g. Python, PowerShell)
10. Experience writing and publishing technical white papers

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