Solutions Architect, UK Public Sector, National Security & Defence

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Solutions Architect to join our thriving technical community and growing business as part of the UK Public Sector team. You will join a friendly and supportive team working together to bring the latest in disruptive cloud computing technologies to organisations serving our Public Sector customers. These customers include government agencies state-owned companies educational institutions healthcare and non-profit organisations. Our Public Sector teams help customers build a deeper understanding of hyper-scale cloud technology and application architectures and they have the consultative skills required to drive deliver successful outcomes.

As an AWS Solutions Architect you will have ownership of the technical relationship with customers making recommendations on security cost performance reliability operational efficiency and best-practice architectures.

Internally you will be an advocate acting on behalf of the customer to help drive continual improvements to the AWS platform sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features and services. You will also help shape the future of the Solutions Architecture organisation by helping to hire coach and mentor others.

In this role your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions with the opportunity to implement or document cloud-native reference architectures with the AWS Solutions Architect community.

You will participate in the creation and sharing of recommended practices technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers code samples blog posts) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops user groups meetups public speaking online videos or conferences).

If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible while investigating the impossible come build the future with us.

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- Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics).
- Experience in design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures
- Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
- Experience communicating to senior management and customers verbally and in writing
- Already hold or be willing to undergo UK government security clearance and meet residency requirements.

- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
- Experience in technology/software sales pre-sales or consulting
- Experience with AWS technologies

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