Are you passionate about helping businesses revolutionize their cloud journey through container technology? Join AWS's Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) as a Specialist Solutions Architect!

We are looking for innovative leaders to join our team of Specialist Solutions Architects. This role will have a particular focus on working with our partners, both Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Systems Integrators (SIs). You will act as a trusted advisor to these partners and help them drive success. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to help shape our services including Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, AWS Fargate, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry. You will demonstrate customer obsession, representing the voice of the customer as you work with product teams to evolve AWS services. You will also work directly with the most innovative and forward-thinking customers - leaders in their respective fields - earning trust to understand their requirements and turn them into reality. You will drive architectural best practices, building and operating advanced, scalable, reliable, and secure workloads by collaborating with customers, developing impactful content, and enabling the wider community to adopt the AWS portfolio. This includes acting as a strategic technical leader in the field to provide architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote & accelerate partner engagements worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

Work with AWS Partners to define the container components of best-in-class Go-To-Market (GTM) concepts, solutions, and initiatives.

Design, implementation, and deployment experience with advanced containerized solutions architectures.

Use data and customer anecdotes to provide feedback to product teams, influencing feature development and future product roadmaps.

Provide advanced technical knowledge through container aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.

Steward the deployment and operations of workloads on AWS using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Fargate, Kubernetes or other container services.


About the team
This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

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