Are you passionate about helping customers build storage and cloud solutions? Come join us!

At Amazon, we've been investing deeply in building the right solutions that allow you to derive the most value from your storage infrastructure. AWS is looking for a solutions architect for our Storage team, who will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) helping customers to design complex solutions. As part of the team, you will work closely with customers in one or more industry verticals (Financial Services, Media and Entertainment, Manufacturing, Technology, Health Care and Life Sciences, Retail, etc.) to enable large-scale use cases and drive the adoption of advanced AWS services. You will interact with other Solution Architects in the field, providing guidance on their customer engagements, and you will develop white papers, blogs, reference implementations, and presentations to enable customers to fully leverage AWS. You will engage with product owners to influence product direction and help our customers tap into new markets by utilizing GenAI along with AWS Services.

Job location - Seattle or the SF Bay Area. Travel up to 25%.

Key job responsibilities

• \tWorking closely with our product and field teams and 3rd party model providers, you will help enable new capabilities for our customers to develop and deploy GenAI workloads on AWS infrastructure

• \tDesign best in class storage infrastructure solutions for all stages of customer and product lifecycles.

• \tYou will have the technical depth and business experience to deploy storage and data strategies in the context of GenAI and ML applications.

• \tPartner with SAs, Sales, Business Development and Service teams to accelerate customer adoption and revenue attainment.

• \tYou will also work closely with account teams, research scientists, and product teams to drive model implementations and new solutions.

• \tThought Leadership - Evangelize and share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.

• \tAct as a technical liaison between customers and the AWS teams to provide customer driven product improvement feedback.

• \tDevelop and support an AWS internal community of related subject matter experts.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Santa Clara, CA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

- Technical Communication Skills; able to bridge the gap between business outcomes and technical requirements.

- Familiarity with AI/ML and how Storage technology is leveraged for modern data solutions.

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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $122,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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