Partner Solutions Architect, Aws Gameday

DESCRIPTIONAre you a builder who can think outside the box? Are you passionate about scaling a unique initiative globally? AWS GameDay is a gamified learning event that challenges participants to use AWS solutions to solve real-world technical problems in a team-based setting. Unlike traditional workshops, GameDays are open-ended and non-prescriptive to give participants the freedom to explore and think outside the box. Our main goal is for customers to use GameDay as a learning mechanism which will ultimately help them operate their businesses smarter on AWS. We host GameDay events publicly at conferences such as re:Invent, and privately for customers ranging from startups to large enterprises.We are looking for a GameDay Solutions Architect who will build and maintain our content portfolio, assist with the development of new tools, and improve the participant experience as we deliver events worldwide. If you have development experience at a startup or in a similar fast-paced environment, are excited to work with modern tools, can operate efficiently through ambiguity, and deliver on-time then this job is for you. You will enjoy this role if you are a problem-solver with broad technical skills and have the ability to drive technical conversations. The team is small and focused today, but will grow over the coming year, providing ample opportunity to flex your skills and play to your strengths.As a GameDay Solutions Architect, your top priority will be producing and maintaining fun, exciting, and educational content. You'll also help define our roadmap and development workflows, ensuring that development practices are held to a high standard. You will understand the latest cloud market trends to determine what content our customers want more of, and what services are in-demand, in order to strategically build new challenges. Your cloud experience will allow you to understand common customer pitfalls and pain points, and where GameDay can help transfer knowledge to customers in their day jobs. You will write documentation such as operator guides and FAQs covering content so that other AWS teams can run GameDays for their customers in hands-on enablement events.At Amazon it is always Day One: we never stop building and innovating on behalf of our customers. The same is true when it comes to diversity. Using our Leadership Principles to guide us, we are innovating in diversity, inclusion, and equality like we do in all areas of our business: using data, thinking big, and building disruptive solutions. We seek diverse builders from all walks of life to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.May require up to 20% travel.Key job responsibilities
- Ensure partner success in designing, building, and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform.- Lead architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.- Work directly with AWS engineering teams to advise on their roadmap, assist with architecture design, guide their implementation and help promote their services as a catalyst.- Drive organizational technical initiatives from ideas to fruition including design, implementation, automation and scale.- Be an AWS evangelist. Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS.- Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, blogs, and proof of concepts.- Build relationships with senior technical individuals internally and externally to enable them to be cloud advocates.- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS Solutions Architect community.About the team
Work/Life BalanceOur team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work.Mentorship & Career GrowthOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.Inclusive and Diverse CultureHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have twelve employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Melbourne, VIC, AUS | Sydney, NSW, AUSBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Experience with two or more of the following: networking fundamentals, security, storage or databases (relational or NoSQL), operating systems (Unix, Linux, or Windows)
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience with at least one currently relevant, industry standard programming language (Python or JavaScript preferred)
- Passion for technology and learning
- Some travel will be requiredPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Experience implementing a cloud-based technology solution
- Experience in any of the following: Cloud Architecture, Systems Design, Software Development, Infrastructure Architecture, Data Engineering or DevOps
- Working knowledge of AWS services.
- Has the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification
- Professional experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Strong written and presentation communication skills
- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience building, delivering, and participating in hands-on technical trainings (workshops, hackathons, bootcamps)
- Has experience applying gamification to training or competitive environments.
- Has a history of building and delivering small projects with othersAcknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.IDE statement:
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.