Do you like helping customers design and deploy creative and innovative cloud computing solutions to solve complex business problems? Do you have deep VMware skills, as well as experience in leading migrations to AWS? Do you have the consultative and leadership skills to help customers succeed with their cloud migration efforts?Amazon Web Services is looking for a Solutions Architect to help customers accelerate the migration of their VMware workloads to AWS. This is an excellent opportunity to help customers understand best practices for migrating their existing workloads to AWS, and advise them on building resilient cloud architectures and operating models. This role also provides opportunities to influence the future direction of AWS in terms of our support for VMware workloads.Key job responsibilitiesAs a Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, you are at the leading edge of technology in your area of expertise and called upon by others in our Sales, Solutions Architecture or technical support teams to provide expert guidance to our customers. AWS Specialist Solutions Architects are typically called upon to work with our largest customers on their most technically challenging problems and you will need to be comfortable independently working with customer stakeholders across multiple areas of business and technology within organisationally complex structures.In terms of direct customer engagement, you will own the technical engagement as it relates to their migration of VMware workloads to AWS and are responsible for ensuring that any guidance you provide is current, architecturally sound, secure, reliable, sustainable, and cost-efficient. AWS Solutions Architects are also responsible for taking learnings from individual customer successes and scaling that knowledge more broadly through the publication of white-papers & reference architectures, or by building and presenting workshops or breakout sessions at public events such as AWS re:Invent.A day in the lifeAWS 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.About the teamAmazon 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.Minimum RequirementsKnowledge of cloud architecture5+ years experience architecting solutions on AWS6+ years experience with VMware technologies including vSphere, vSAN and NSXStrong understanding of resilience features such as vSphere HA, vMotion, and DRSKnowledge of VMware vRealize and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) products and techniquesFamiliarity with infrastructure architecture - network, storage & securityExperience leading large scale migrations to AWSKnowledge of cloud services, cloud native design and/or cloud implementation experienceKnowledge of microservices architecture and application modernisation techniquesKnowledge of Microsoft licensing and common licensing deployments along with infrastructure management platforms such as WSUS, SCCM, SCOMKnowledge of the AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticalsIDE statement:Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.
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