DevOps Engineer

Technical Account Manager, ES - EMEA-Partner

DESCRIPTION

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. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

An AWS Technical Account Manager is a trusted advisor and cloud operations architect for our Enterprise Support customers. As a trusted advisor you'll have a direct impact in helping our customers gain the most value from cloud technology. You'll craft and execute strategies to drive our customers' adoption and use of AWS services. You will provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices, and proactively keep your customers' AWS environments operationally healthy. The close relationships developed with your customers will allow you to understand their business / operational needs and technical challenges, and help them achieve the greatest value from AWS.

Key job responsibilities

• You'll build solutions, provide technical guidance and advocate for the customer.
• Ensure AWS environments remain operationally healthy whilst reducing cost and complexity.
• Develop trusting relationships with customers, understanding their business needs and technical challenges.
• Using your technical acumen and customer obsession, you'll drive technical discussions regarding incidents, trade-offs, and risk management.
• Consult with a range of partners from developers through to C-suite executives.
• Collaborate with AWS Solutions Architects, Business Developers, Professional Services Consultants, and Sales Account Managers.
• With a bias for action, you'll proactively find opportunities for customers to gain additional value from AWS.
• Solve a variety of problems across different customers as they migrate their workloads to the cloud.
• Uplift customer capabilities by running workshops and other enablement sessions.

As we continue to rapidly expand in EMEA, you'll have plenty of opportunities to develop your technical, consulting and leadership skills. You'll work with talented cloud technologists whilst expanding your knowledge of AWS products. You'll also have the chance to receive mentorship and gain AWS certifications.

Do you want to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption? We would love to hear from you.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3 + years experience in a similar role as a Technical Account Manager, Consultant, Solutions Architect, Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, Cloud Architect etc.
• Understand operational parameters and troubleshooting for a combination of the following: Compute, Storage, Networking, CDN, Databases, DevOps, Big Data and Analytics, Security, Applications Development.
• Internal enterprise or external customer-facing experience with the ability to clearly articulate to small and large audiences.
• English and French Speaking Language Required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Professional experience with cloud offerings such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform etc.
• Programming or scripting skills in Java, Python, PowerShell, Perl, Ruby, C#, or PHP a plus but not a requirement.
• Previous experience as a Software Engineer, Operations Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Developer, DevOps Engineer etc.
• Understanding of DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration / Deployment, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef is a plus.

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