Sr. AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Global Financial Services (GFS)

DESCRIPTION

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we're hiring highly technical cloud computing architects to help our partners develop technical expertise and capacity, while also collaborating with our customers and partners on key engagements. Our consultants will deliver proof-of-concept projects, topical workshops, and lead implementation projects. These professional services engagements will focus on key customer solutions such as web applications, enterprise applications, HPC, batch processing, big data, archiving, and disaster recovery, education, and government.

Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 10+ years of IT implementation experience driving discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management, and risk mitigation
2. Demonstrated experience leading the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale or current hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
3. Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies as well as integration of cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP, etc.
4. Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g., security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA, etc.), scripting and/or coding experience as well as the ability to travel to client locations when needed.

1. Financial services and consulting experience and knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3)
2. Track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments as well as large scale migration experience Data Center to Data Center and/or Data Center to Cloud Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (e.g., shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell)
3. Practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment
4. Experience managing data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting, and notifications as well as demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges