Description
Do you like helping U.S. Federal Civilian Government and Intelligence Community agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems?
Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies?
Do you have a knack for helping these groups understand application architectures and integration approaches, and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success?
Are you familiar with security best practices for applications, servers, and networks?
Amazon Web Services is looking for highly talented and technical consultants to help accelerate our growing Professional Services business.
This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazons world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.
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.
We are looking for someone who will:
- Be great fun to work with at AWS, we have a credo of "Work hard.
Have fun.
Make history".
In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun.
You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any task and make a big impact.
- Enjoy working with Intelligence Community customers.
- You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and demanding set of Intelligence Community customers.
- Have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions.
The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems or support engineer.
- You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions.
- You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create truly innovative solutions built on AWS.
It is expected to work from one of the above locations (or customer sites) at least 1+ days in a week.
This is not a remote position.
You are expected to be in the office or with customers as needed.
This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance.
About the team
About the team
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.
We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences.
Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.
If your career is just starting, hasnt followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, dont let it stop you from applying.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, its in our nature to learn and be curious.
Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.
Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony.
Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture.
When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer.
Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Basic Qualifications
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.Programming experience with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Nodejs, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- Designing and building application using Container and serverless technologies
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Secret or above
Preferred Qualifications
- UX/UI experience - Extensive experience architecting, designing and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment Experience with designing and building application using AWS services such as EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks
- Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g.
Jenkins)
- Hands on familiarity with CloudFormation.
- Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g.
Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible)
- Strong scripting skills (e.g.
Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
- Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems
- Extra curricula software development passion (e.g.
active open source contributor)
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.