Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists to join their team in Dubai/Abu Dhabi. You will partner with customers and various AWS teams to design highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures, accelerating the adoption of AWS services and driving revenue growth. This role requires a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills.

As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices for cloud solutions and guide them in migrating existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to shape and execute strategies to build mindshare and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers. The position is based in Dubai/Abu Dhabi with expected travel between 25%-50% to Middle East countries.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, pioneering cloud computing and continuously innovating. We empower businesses of all sizes, from startups to Global 500 companies, by providing a reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud.

Company Overview

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services, now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost.

Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.

Quick Details

• Salary Range: Not Applicable
• Job Type: Full-time
• Experience: 7+ Year+
• Qualifications: bachelors-degree

Key Responsibilities

• Formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS.
• Ensure success in building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform.
• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and participate in deep architectural discussions.
• Conduct training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.

Requirements

• 7+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.
• 4+ 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.
• Proven track record in software/technology sales or consulting.
• Ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.

Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development and career growth within AWS.
• Work in a collaborative and inclusive team culture with employee-led affinity groups.
• Access to ongoing learning experiences and mentorship resources.
• Flexible work hours and arrangements to support work-life harmony.
• Be part of a company that pioneered cloud computing and continues to innovate.