Solutions Architect, AGS-APJ-India-SA

Are you excited to work with the team that enables Indian industries to build innovative services with AWS, scaling to serve billion+ Indians? The team in AWS India is looking for a Solutions Architect, who can work with our customers, who have built world class scaling infrastructure, exceptional solutions, exploding digital content and interactive experiences. Indian industries are profoundly changing everyday life of billion+ Indians through their digital native solutions. Broad responsibilities include owning the technical engagement and ensuring success around specific implementation projects, developing deep expertise in AWS technologies and broad knowledge on how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform. The ideal candidate will own architecture and design of IT systems deploying at scale, have experience in centers of excellence or innovation centers to evangelize new technologies, and be able to evaluate trade‑offs between patterns and frameworks. Hands‑on experience with proof‑of‑concepts and demonstrations is required, as well as expertise in identifying repeatable patterns, best practices, and constant learning. The ideal candidate will possess customer‑facing skills that will allow them to represent AWS India well within a customer’s or partner's environment, drive discussions with senior executives, and provide guidance to developer communities and architects in India. They should demonstrate strategic thinking about business, product, and technical challenges. Key job responsibilitiesWork with AWS customers to map business requirements to technology. Define performance requirements based on user access patterns and compare between various design patterns. Discern between a variety of Generative AI, AI/ML, data, analytics, compute, containers, and serverless technologies. Architect for high availability and scaling requirements while minimizing cost and meeting security standards. Architect disaster recovery solutions for required RTO/RPO. Advise on building DevOps pipelines and processes. Advise on monitoring and observability. Conduct well‑architected reviews. Partner with AWS Specialists to implement innovative solutions. Collaborate with Service teams to identify feature gaps and suggest new features. Present to customer C‑suite and technical communities on architecture patterns, best practices, and case studies.Position can be based out of Gurgaon/Bengaluru. Want to learn more about being a Solutions Architect at AWS, follow the link: About the team AWS Global Sales (AGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small‑ and mid‑market accounts to enterprise‑level customers including public sector. A day in the life You’re surrounded by innovation. You’re empowered with a lot of ownership. Your growth is accelerated. The work is challenging. You have a voice here and are encouraged to use it. 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Basic QualificationsBachelor’s degree 10+ years of IT development/consulting experience with 4+ years of solutions architecture experience on large‑scale systems; 5+ years of design, implementation and deployment experience in advanced solutions in AI‑ML/containers/database/bigdata or similar; 2+ years of experience in architecting, migrating, operating solutions built on AWS or another cloud platform Expertise in open‑source programming, frameworks, design patterns and development; expertise in two or more solution areas such as building AI‑ML solutions, container technologies, devops practices, purpose‑built databases, data warehouses, bigdata, search engines, streaming etc. Understanding of infrastructure and application monitoring; Load Balancers, Network (subnets/NATs/Gateways), CDN, HTTP, Storage, Security and understanding of distributed system designPreferred QualificationsDegree in engineering, computer science or equivalent AWS Associate certifications or above Effective presentation/communication skills with the ability to communicate across c‑suite Contribution to Open‑Source projects/Tech blogsOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. 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