Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Do you like helping U.S. Intelligence Community agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems? Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping these groups understand application architectures and integration approaches, and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success? Are you familiar with security best practices for applications, servers, and networks? Do you want to be part of the business development team helping to establish Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading technology platform?

Amazon Web Services is looking for highly talented and technical developers to help accelerate our growing Professional Services business. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazons world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.

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 to drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about:
Being great fun to work with. At AWS, we have a credo: Work hard. Have fun. Make history. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.
Working with Intelligence Community customers. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of Intelligence Community customers.
Blending skills in sales, presenting, and scoping with implementation, building, and delivering
Using visionary thinking to challenge existing assumptions and design bold solutions.
Optimizing processes using tools, repeatable solutions, and automation
Having a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems or support engineer. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to in-depth architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.

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.

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 we 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 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

We're dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we arent focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, were happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced lifeboth in and outside of work.

**This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.**

**For additional information or to send your resume directly, please email Joshua May at joshmy@amazon.com **
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

This position requires that the candidate must currently
possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance.
3+ years of experience in application or database design, development, and implementation
2+ years of practical application development experience on Linux or Windows-based systems and scripting skills (e.g. Bash, Powershell, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
1+ year of experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)
Technical degree required or equivalent work experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

2+ years of hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale
6+ years experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture, software, DevOps, and networking
Hands on programming skills in multiple of the following languages: Java, .NET (C), Python, Node.js, Ruby, C/C++, or Scala
Hands on development skills with relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) or NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
Extensive experience designing and developing applications in an AWS cloud environment
Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to work effectively across organizations
Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability
Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
Customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customers environment and drive discussions with technical personnel regarding design, development, and architecting best practices
Experience diagnosing performance problems and tuning code, SQL, and deployment architectures to improve performance
Experience migrating applications from one OS to another (ex. Solaris to Linux) or from one database to another (ex. Informix to Oracle)
Experience with designing and building applications using AWS services such as EC2, RDS, and DynamoDB
Experience with unit or automated testing tools (e.g. Junit, TestNG)
Hands on familiarity with CloudFormation
Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, or Ansible)
Integration of AWS cloud services with on premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
Extracurricular software development passion (e.g. active open source contributor)
Advanced degrees in information systems, engineering, and/or business
Understanding of Federal Government application, server, and network security requirements such as ICD 503, FISMA, and FedRAMP
Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
Ability to travel to AWS offices and client locations as needed (up to 50%)
A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. For more information regarding Amazon benefits, please visit
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/benefits. Applicants should apply via Amazons internal or external careers site.

Please contact Josh May directly if you have questions or wish to discuss our compensation structure in more detail joshmy@amazon.com

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.