Senior DevOps Consultant, Professional Services, UK NatSec, WWPS

Description

AWS Professional Services provides a flexible career path, providing you access to learn AWS Services, gain AWS and industry Certifications. We encourage you to use your creative cloud skills to implement technical and business solutions for our customers.

This is a customer facing role however we operate a hybrid working model (remote and face to face). You will be required to travel to UK client locations (~3 days on customer site per week) to deliver professional services to our customers.

About you

Are you a technical professional with experience working on technical and business transformations? Would you like to work with our customers to help them understand and leverage the benefits of the AWS Cloud? Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers use cloud computing to do new things? Can you help customers understand cloud technologies through consulting on a multi-disciplinary team? Do you have experience in helping customers to analyse existing systems and to design and deliver modern solutions?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for individuals who have a technical background and have the desire to use cloud computing to help accelerate our growing National Security and Public Safety Professional Services business in the UK.

AWS Professional Services offers:

* A rewarding, flexible career, with the opportunity to develop your technical, and consultancy skills
* The ability to learn on the job and expand your skills
* Dedicated training with time to gain AWS and industry certifications
* Direct access to AWS Service and Training teams, training teams

AWS Professional Services technology presents a real opportunity to transform service delivery as well as increase operational efficiencies, and we need passionate, experienced cloud consultants to help our customers realise those benefits.

Our consultants collaborate with customer teams to deliver proof-of-concept projects, workshops and architecture assessments, provide advisory services and lead implementation projects working with AWS customers.



Key job responsibilities
Scoping and delivering on-site technical engagements with partners and customers, including participating in pre-sales on-site visits, understanding customer requirements, proposing and presenting packaged offerings, and scoping custom solution engagements. You will contribute to documentation such as statements of work and estimates.

Delivering on-site projects proving the use of services to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private cloud.
Engagements will include existing applications as well as the development of new innovations using services, and will include a mix of hands on development as well as artefact creation.
Collaborating with Solution Architects, account managers, training and support teams to inspire partners and customers to learn about and use the wide range of AWS services, and to evolve or migrate their systems to take advantage of new functionality.

Working with engineering and support teams to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world challenges and recommend new capabilities that would simplify adoption and drive greater value from use of AWS services.

As a successful candidate you will have previously worked in a customer facing role and have hands-on experience in one or more of the following:

- Public and/or Private Cloud Architecture
- DevOps
- Software design
- Security (Architecture or Engineering)
- Infrastructure or Application Migrations
- Platform or Systems Engineering/Administration
- Operations in hybrid cloud environment
- Big Data or Data Analytics

A day in the life
- Working Backwards from desired customer outcomes to design and deliver technical solutions
- Working on projects with autonomy and discretion
- Advising customers how to implement solutions
- Assisting customers with building Proof of Concepts and implementing AWS services
- Collaborating with Sales and AWS Service Teams
- Researching, validating, and beta testing new AWS Services
- Presenting workshops one to one, or one to many

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS 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.

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 & 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.

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.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience as technical specialist in design and architecture
- Experience in external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management
- Experience in software development with object oriented language
- Experience in database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis)
- UK Government Security Clearance is required for this role (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels) UK Nationality is required for this role

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system
- Hands-on experience with AWS or another cloud provider
- An AWS Certification - DevOps Associate or a Specialty Cert
- Experience in consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions

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