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Cloud Migrations Consultant, WWPS FedCiv

Annapolis Junction, MD
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Posted 11/03/2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for highly talented hands on technical architects/developers to join our Professional Services organization, and help accelerate our customer’s journey to the cloud. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers, while also using and expanding your skills working hands on with the future of everything.

We are seeking highly motivated technical architects/developers that possess a unique balance of application development/architecture, cloud migration experience and strong interpersonal business acumen to build a scalable playbook for large-scale migrations to the AWS platform.
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.

In this role as an experienced cloud architect/developer, you will work with our customers in architecting, developing and re-engineering applications that can fully leverage the AWS Cloud. You will work on a variety of game changing projects, at the forefront of application development and cloud technology adoption. Achieving success will require coordination across many internal AWS teams and external AWS Partners, with impact and visibility at the highest levels of the company.

Responsibilities include:
Help customers architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services
Architect and develop customer applications to be cloud optimized
Work as a technical leader alongside our customer’s business, development and infrastructure teams
Provide deep software development knowledge with respect to cloud architecture, design patterns and programming
Advise and implement AWS best practices
Leverage Agile software development methodologies
Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment

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 obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.

About the team
Why AWS?
Amazon 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.

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, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s 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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor’s degree, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field or equivalent professional or military experience
- 5+ years of enterprise software development or application engineering with recent coding experience in two or more of the following languages: Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Swift, Node.js, Python, Go, or Ruby
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
- Professional experience developing, designing and developing applications in a Public or Hybrid Cloud environment
- Experience in a customer facing role driving discussions with technical personnel regarding design, development and architecting best practices

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
- Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins), Scripting experience (e.g. Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
- Hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale as well as Agile development methodologies
- Experience with designing and building applications using AWS services such as EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks
- Experience with unit or automated testing tools (e.g. Junit, TestNG)
- Experience or familiarity with CloudFormation, Terraform
- Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible) and integration experience of AWS cloud services with on premise technologies (Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP e.g.)

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.

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