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Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a place where invention, thinking big, and redefining the definition of what is possible are woven into the company culture. We are proud to be the place where cloud computing first came to life, proud of being widely recognized as the industry leader, and excited about what’s possible in the years to come. We’re looking for people who share that same excitement. Come join us and become part of our diverse team of leaders who make cloud computing attainable for anyone, anywhere, be they hobbyists, startups, not-for-profits, or large multi-national organizations.

We are looking for individuals to join our team of UKI Specialist Solutions Architects. As a part of this team, you will have the opportunity to help shape our services like Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, AWS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, and AWS App Mesh. You will work directly with the most interesting and creative customers - leaders in their respective fields - Earning Trust to understand their requirements and turn them into reality. You will also demonstrate Customer Obsession, representing the voice of the customer as you work with product teams to evolve AWS products. You will innovate and scale architectural best practices building and operating advanced, scalable, reliable and secure workloads by collaborating with customers, developing content and enabling the wider community to adopt the AWS portfolio.

Inside AWS, you are an ambassador for our customers. You will articulate customer needs by synthesizing your observations from customer engagements and market trends around workloads to inform the roadmap of AWS features.

Key job responsibilities

You will have a passion for solving business challenges through cloud technology. As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SA) for Container Services, you will be one of the team of recognized experts in AWS Container technologies, responsible for influencing company strategy by working directly with customers. Your expertise in cloud-native applications will help customers understand how to improve their businesses using the container orchestration services provided by AWS. You will partner with Go-To-Market leaders to understand customer and partner requirements. You will use your technical expertise to help develop sales programs, and identify new workloads, market segments, and opportunities that can be served by AWS Container Services. Thought leadership in terms of looking beyond the technology and considering the value technology creates for our customers, and helping to change how technology is viewed, are important aspects of the role. You will need to be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other teams within AWS such as product/services teams, field solutions architecture, sales, marketing, business development, and professional services, in order to deliver results.

About the team

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 Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. 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. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.

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. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

• Experience working with end user or developer communities

• Design/implementation/deployment experience of advanced Containerized solutions

• Design/implementation/deployment experience of Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines

• Excellent oral and written communications skills

• Experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Container architecture, design or development

• Deploying large scale applications based on an event driven architecture and based on serverless solutions like AWS Lambda

• Deployment and operations of workloads on AWS using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Fargate, Kubernetes or others.

• Working knowledge of software development methodologies

• Exposure to and experience in operating container clusters with ECS, Kubernetes, Docker and others

• Understanding of the container ecosystem.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a professional field or military

• Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking

• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need an adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT), Monday through Friday from 7:00 am GMT - 4:00 pm GMT. If calling directly from the United Kingdom, please dial +44 800 086 9884 (tel:+448000869884). If calling from Ireland, please dial +353 1800 851 489 (tel:+3531800851489).