Associate Solutions Architect, EMEA Startup Scaling Team at Amazon

Job Summary

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Startup EMEA team is seeking early career professionals, and advanced career professionals with limited technical experience interested in jump-starting a career as a Startup Associate Solutions Architect.
• During the first 3 months you will be in accelerated workforce development program, shadowing AWS experts, being coached, preparing to become an AWS Associate Certified Solutions Architect and receiving on-the-job training to help you succeed in your new role.
• As a Startup Associate Solutions Architect, you’ll help Startups successfully implement cloud technologies.
• You’ll solve complex, technical challenges so your customers can focus on their business.
• This includes using your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.
• You’ll drive technical solutions discussions, diving deep into the details with customer teams.
• Building relationships to understand our startups is key.
• As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll use your interpersonal skills to influence a variety of stakeholders from technical teams to executives.
• You’ll help ensure their short-term technology decisions are aligned with their long-term goals.
• Speeding up the adoption of our services will be part of your day to day.

Basic Qualifications

• A Degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Mathematics / Technology / Related Science / Technical field or equivalent training, certifications, and/or experience.
• Experience with Networking fundamentals including Security, Storage or Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL), Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows)
• Experience with one or more of the following domains: systems administration (Linux/Window), network administration (DNS, IPsec, BGP, VPN, Load Balancing), or programming (Node.JS, Java, Ruby, C#, Python, or PHP).
• Written and verbal communication skills and ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions to both large and small audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• Fluent proficiency in English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience around implementing cloud-based technology solutions.
• Startup work experience is a plus.

Inclusive Team Culture:

• Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.
• We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.
• Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work / Life Harmony:

• Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.
• We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfilment AND WE encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.Mentorship & Career Growth
• Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.
• Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded Solutions Architect and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.