Amazon

Solutions Architect, National Security & Defence

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1 day ago
Manchester, United Kingdom +3 moreSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical relationship with customers and recommend secure, cost-effective, performant, reliable, and operationally efficient architectures.
  • Help public sector customers understand cloud technology and application architectures and deliver successful outcomes.
  • Implement or document cloud-native reference architectures with the AWS Solutions Architect community.
  • Create and share recommended practices, white papers, code samples, blog posts, and other technical content.
  • Educate and evangelize AWS technology through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos, and conferences.
  • Represent customer needs internally to drive improvements to the AWS platform and inform the AWS service roadmap.
  • Help hire, coach, and mentor other team members.

Requirements

  • Experience in a relevant technology domain such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data and analytics.
  • Experience designing, implementing, or consulting on applications and infrastructures.
  • Experience in IT development or implementation and consulting within the software or Internet industries.
  • Experience communicating with technical and non-technical audiences, including executive stakeholders or clients.
  • Already hold or be willing to undergo UK government security clearance and meet residency requirements.
  • Preferred: experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.
  • Preferred: experience with AWS technologies from a development and operations perspective.
  • Preferred: experience in technology or software sales, pre-sales, or consulting.
  • Preferred: cloud technology certification such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional, or Cloud DevOps Engineering.

Benefits

  • Flexible working and flexible work hours and arrangements.
  • Private medical insurance including family coverage.
  • Free employee assistance programme.
  • Opportunities to volunteer through Amazon in the Community and support events such as Hour of Code.
  • Inclusive culture, employee-led affinity groups, learning experiences, mentorship, knowledge sharing, and career-development resources.

Tech Stack

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Amazon

About Amazon

10,000+ employees

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.

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