• 7+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• Experience in technology/software sales, pre-sales, or consulting

Do you have a passion for helping customers design large distributed systems? Would you like to do this using the world’s most advanced cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping an organization to understand application architectures and integration approaches, to architect advanced cloud-based solutions, and to help launch the build-out of those systems? Are you one of those rare technologists with the communications, consultative, and leadership skills to help guide major projects to success? The AWS Solutions Architecture team in Malaysia is hiring!

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.

As a Solutions Architect (SA) within Amazon Web Services (AWS) Malaysia, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon’s utility computing web services including infrastructure, Dev Ops, business applications, multimedia, machine learning, Io T, desktop applications, and industries solutions.

Your wide duties will include: owning the technical engagement and eventual success around particular implementation projects, building a broad understanding of how applications and services are built utilizing the AWS platform, and becoming an expert in the AWS technologies.

The ideal candidate will have technical knowledge that enables them to easily interact with and provide direction to developers and architects, customer-facing skills that enable them to effectively represent Amazon within a customer's environment, and a technical background that drives discussions with senior staff members within the organization.

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Key job responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to accelerate their business outcomes and recommend best-practice cloud architectures in line with their long-term business needs.
• Drive technical solutions discussions with your customers, diving deep into the details to solve complex technical problems and use your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.
• Work backwards from your customer's business needs to accelerate adoption of the most appropriate AWS technology
• Define and execute on the strategy by engaging highly technical teams (Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, AWS professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners).
• Act as a thought leader in the wider community, playing a key role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.
• Share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for the AWS platform. Proactively work within the organisation to influence the evolution of the platform.
• Serve as a key technical member of the Solutions Architecture team through influencing decision makers across multiple domains to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform which align to long-term business goals.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Bachelor's degree
• One or more AWS certifications, e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate