DESCRIPTION
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?
You will join as part of the AWS Professional Services (ProServe) Associate to Consultant (A2C) practice, which focuses on the accelerated career development of college graduates and early career professionals. You will have the specific remit to help accelerate our growing UK National Security and Public Safety Professional Services business in the UK.
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.
Key job responsibilities
This is a customer facing role however we operate a hybrid working model (online 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.
As an AWS Cloud Consultant you will:
•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
•Working on projects with autonomy and discretion
•Advising customers how to implement solutions
•Architecting and developing customer applications to be cloud optimized
•Working as a technical specialist alongside customer business, development and infrastructure teams.
•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
AWS Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers, providing experience, best practices, and obsessing about success for our customers. The UK NatSec team collaborates across the entire AWS organisation to bring access to product, service, and training teams, to deliver the right solutions and drive innovation for our customers across National Security and Public Safety.
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.
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
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
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
Eligibility for UK Government Security Check (SC) is required for this role: