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Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.
Are you excited to work with the team that enables India’s Media, Entertainment and Games to build innovative services with AWS, scaling to serve billion+ Indians? The Game Tech team in AWS India is looking for a Solutions Architect who can work with our customers who have built world class scaling infrastructure, exceptional games, exploding digital content and interactive experiences. India’s Media, Entertainment and Games are profoundly changing everyday life of billion+ Indians through their services of Media, Entertainment, Games, eSports and many more.
Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ensure success around specific implementation projects, developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad knowledge around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.
An ideal candidate will be owning the architecture and design IT systems deploying at scale, have worked as a part of Center of excellence, Innovation centers etc. to evangelize adoption of new technologies, have experience with multiple technologies, patterns and frameworks; and is able to figure out trade-offs between them, be hands-on and can roll up their sleeves should need be to do Proof of concepts and demonstrate technologies. Candidate should be good at identifying repeatable pattern and best practices, picking up new technologies & constant learners.
The ideal candidate will possess customer facing skills that will allow them to represent AWS India well within a customer’s or partner’s environment and drive discussions with senior executives within the company, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance to developer community and architects in India. S/he should also have demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
Key job responsibilities
The selected candidate will work with AWS customers to map business requirements to technology; define performance requirement based on user access patterns; compare between various design patterns; discern between variety of data, analytics, AI/ML, compute, containers, and serverless technologies; architect for high availability and scaling requirements, while minimizing the cost and meeting security standards; architect disaster recovery solutions for required RTO/RPO; advise on building DevOps pipelines and process; advise on monitoring and observability; conduct well architected reviews; partner with AWS Specialists to implement innovative solutions; collaborate with the Service teams to identify feature gaps suggest new features; present to customer C-suite and technical communities on architecture patterns, best practices, case studies.
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About the team
About the team
AWS Global Sales (AGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– Total 9+ years of design, implementation and deployment experience in IT solutions with 4+ years of solutions architect experience on large-scale systems including 2+ years of experience in architecting, migrating and operating solutions built on AWS or another cloud platform with an understanding of various design patterns like n-tier, micro-services, stateful/stateless, synchronous/asynchronous, batch/micro-batch/real-time etc.
– Expertise in multiple of open source programming/frameworks, API development, container/devops technologies (Docker/Kubernetes/Mesos/Calico ), databases (RDBMS/NoSQL/Graph) or data warehouses, Bigdata (Spark/Presto/Trino/Hive), building AI/ML solutions or other common technologies such as search, streaming & queues
– Understanding of distributed systems, Infrastructure, Observability, LB, Network, Security, CDN, and Storage.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
– Effective presentation/communication skills with the ability to communicate across c-suite
– Experience with Mobile development, Digital user engagement, Media processing/transcoding
– Thought leadership contributions to Open Source projects/Tech blogs
– AWS Associate certifications or above