Sr Geo Specialist SA, Containers, WWSO, LatAm

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a place where invention, thinking big, and redefining what is possible are woven into the company culture.

We are proud to be the place where cloud computing first came to life, proud of being widely recognized as the industry leader, and excited about what's possible in the years to come.

We're looking for people who share that same excitement.

Come join us and become part of our diverse team of leaders who make cloud computing attainable for anyone, anywhere, be they hobbyists, startups, not-for-profits, or large multi-national organizations.

We are looking for individuals to join our team of Specialist Solutions Architects in our Container Services Go-To-Market team.

You will provide technical expertise to help grow the adoption of a portfolio of services that includes: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, and AWS App Mesh.

As a part of this team, you will have the opportunity to help shape the future of the container industry.

You will work directly with the most interesting and creative customers - leaders in their respective fields - Earning Trust to understand their requirements and turn them into reality.

You will also demonstrate Customer Obsession, representing the voice of the customer as you work with product teams to evolve AWS products.

You and your colleagues will be pattern-matchers, finding signals across the customer solutions that you help make possible, to inform our next generation of service offerings.

Candidates for this role will have a passion for solving business challenges through cloud technology.

As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) for Container Services, you will be one of the team of recognized experts in AWS Container technologies, responsible for influencing company strategy by working directly with customers.

Your expertise in cloud-native applications will help customers understand how to improve their businesses using the container orchestration services provided by AWS.

You will partner with Go-To-Market leaders to understand customer and partner requirements.

You will use your technical expertise to help develop sales programs, and identify new workloads, market segments, and opportunities that can be served by AWS Container Services.

Thought leadership in terms of looking beyond the technology and considering the value technology creates for our customers, and helping to change how technology is viewed, are important aspects of the role.

You will need to be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other teams within AWS such as product/services teams, field solutions architecture, sales, marketing, business development, and professional services, in order to deliver results.

Here are some other qualities we are looking for:

In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work enjoyable.

You will:

• enjoy the camaraderie of teaming up with others to solve problems
• embrace creativity and view new challenges as learning opportunities
• have a passion for helping customers and teammates
• bring with you a deep foundation of solutions innovation on behalf of customers through successful past experience
• have an awareness and understanding of emerging technology solutions.
  
  

Roles and Responsibilities

• As a key member of the business development and account teams, ensure customers are successful in building and migrating applications, software and services using Container Services.
  
  
• Bring together and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS Solutions Architect community, especially in regards to Container solutions and patterns.
  
  
• Exhibit thought leadership, and evangelize AWS Services and Container Service solutions that benefit customers.
  
  Share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public speaking events such as AWS Summit and AWS re:Invent.
  
  Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, product/service engineering teams and support
• Help build deep relationships with builders and decision makers within customer accounts to enable them to be cloud advocates.
  
  

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences.

Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

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.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.

When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

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.

Mentorship and 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

• 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
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing Kubernetes environments at scale
• Proven experience architecting containerized applications and microservices architectures
• Strong background in DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline implementation using Kubernetes
• Experience managing multiple Kubernetes clusters
• Demonstrated expertise in Kubernetes security, networking, and storage concepts
• Track record of developing and maintaining Kubernetes operators and custom controllers
• Experience mentoring teams and promoting Kubernetes best practices across engineering organizations
• Strong knowledge of service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and container orchestration
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Helm) for Kubernetes deployments
• Experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems and container-based applications

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.

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