2 months ago
Base Salary
$154k - $208k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical relationship with enterprise Energy and Oil & Gas customers.
- Design and recommend AWS architectures addressing security, cost, performance, reliability, operational efficiency, and best practices.
- Lead architecture reviews, discovery sessions, technical discussions, cloud modernization initiatives, and Well-Architected reviews.
- Build generative AI demonstrations using RAG architecture for industry use cases.
- Create and share reference architectures, white papers, code samples, blog posts, workshops, and other technical content.
- Educate customers and the broader community about AWS technologies through presentations, user groups, meetups, videos, and conferences.
- Advocate for customer needs internally and help inform the AWS product and service roadmap.
- Collaborate with AWS product, marketing, professional services, account, and specialist teams.
- Help hire, coach, and mentor other Solutions Architects and participate in hiring debriefs.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in specific technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data and analytics.
- 3+ years of experience designing, implementing, or consulting on applications and infrastructures.
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting experience in the software or Internet industries.
- Experience communicating with technical and non-technical audiences, including executive stakeholders or clients.
- Experience presenting and speaking with executives, IT professionals, management, and developers.
- Experience architecting and operating in large enterprise IT environments, including identity management, authentication frameworks, SOPs, ITSM, change management, and enterprise security controls.
- Preferred: 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking experience.
- Preferred: experience with software development tools and methodologies and with enterprise cloud or virtualization solutions.
- Preferred: experience with data and AI technologies, including AI/ML, GenAI, analytics, databases, or storage.
- Preferred: experience designing industrial IoT architectures involving sensor networks, telemetry, equipment monitoring, and legacy operational system integrations.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance, mental health support, and a medical advice line.
- Flexible spending accounts and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the Amazon package.
- AWS offers mentorship, knowledge-sharing, career development resources, inclusion programs, and work-life flexibility.
- The position is based in Houston, Texas, and includes customer site visits as part of the representative work week.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.