Solutions Architect, AGS-APJ-India-SA

DESCRIPTION

Are you excited to work with the team that enables Indian industries to build innovative services with AWS, scaling to serve billion+ Indians? The team in AWS India is looking for a Solutions Architect, who can work with our customers, who have built world class scaling infrastructure, exceptional solutions, exploding digital content and interactive experiences. Indian industries are profoundly changing everyday life of billion+ Indians through their digital native solutions.
Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ensure success around specific implementation projects, developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad knowledge around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform. An ideal candidate will be owning the architecture and design IT systems deploying at scale, have worked as a part of Center of excellence, Innovation centers etc. to evangelize adoption of new technologies, have experience with multiple technologies, patterns and frameworks; and is able to figure out trade-offs between them, be hands-on and can roll up their sleeves should need be to do Proof of concepts and demonstrate technologies. Candidate should be good at identifying repeatable pattern and best practices, picking up new technologies & constant learners. The ideal candidate will possess customer facing skills that will allow them to represent AWS India well within a customer’s or partner's environment and drive discussions with senior executives within the company, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance to developer community and architects in India. S/he should also have demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges. Key job responsibilities The selected candidate will work with AWS customers to map business requirements to technology; define performance requirement based on user access patterns; compare between various design patterns; discern between variety of Generative AI, AI/ML, data, analytics, compute, containers, and serverless technologies; architect for high availability and scaling requirements, while minimizing the cost and meeting security standards; architect disaster recovery solutions for required RTO/RPO; advise on building DevOps pipelines and process; advise on monitoring and observability; conduct well architected reviews; partner with AWS Specialists to implement innovative solutions; collaborate with the Service teams to identify feature gaps suggest new features; present to customer C-suite and technical communities on architecture patterns, best practices, case studies. Position can be based out of Gurgaon/ Bengaluru Want to learn more about being a Solutions Architect at AWS, follow the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js21xKMFdww About the team AWS Global Sales (AGS) 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. A day in the life You’re surrounded by innovation. You’re empowered with a lot of ownership. Your growth is accelerated. The work is challenging. You have a voice here and are encouraged to use it. Your experience and career development is in your hands. We live our leadership principles every day. At Amazon, it's always "Day 1". Diverse Experiences Amazon 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. 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. 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 and 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years of IT development/consulting experience with 4+ years of solutions architecture experience on large-scale systems; 5+ years of design, implementation and deployment experience in advanced solutions in AI-ML/containers/database/bigdata or similar; 2+ years of experience in architecting, migrating, operating solutions built on AWS or another cloud platform
• Expertise in open-source programming, frameworks, design patterns and development; expertise in two or more solution areas such as building AI-ML solutions, container technologies, devops practices, purpose build databases, data warehouses, bigdata, search engines, streaming etc.
• Understanding of Infrastructure and Application monitoring; Load Balancers, Network (subnets/NATs/Gateways), CDN, HTTP, Storage, Security and understanding of distributed system design

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• AWS Associate certifications or above
• Effective presentation/communication skills with the ability to communicate across c-suite
• Contribution to Open-Source projects/Tech blogs