Senior Solutions Architect Public Sector Benelux jobs at Amazon in Belgium, Brussels

As a Solutions Architect at AWS, you’ll build technical relationships with customers of all sizes and operate as their trusted advisor, ensuring they get the most out of the cloud at every stage of their journey.You’ll manage the overall technical relationship between AWS and our customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency to accelerate their challenging, mission-critical projects.Internally, you will be the voice of the customer, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features.
You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· Background in any of the following: Cloud Architecture, Systems Design, Software Development, Infrastructure Architecture, Data Engineering or DevOps
· Technical Degree (Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or equivalent) and/or relevant tech experience.
· Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English
· A passion for technology and for learning

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Experience designing, building, refactoring or operating large scale and impactful IT systems - either on premises or in the cloud
· Working knowledge of cloud native architectures
· Knowledge of a modern programming language (Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java, etc.) and/or scripting, Infrastructure as Code etc.
· In-depth working knowledge in a technology domain such as distributed internet-scale web or mobile applications, DevOps, Serverless, Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning, enterprise workloads (SAP, VMware, Windows etc.), high-performance databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), complex networking implementations, highly secured workloads etc.
· Experience working in a customer-facing role or a role which involved public speaking
· AWS certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional) or other industry certification
· Fluent written and verbal communication skills in Dutch or French

Key job responsibilities
You’ll advise on solutions, provide technical guidance and advocate for the customer
* Ensure AWS environments remain operationally healthy whilst reducing cost and complexity
* Develop trusting relationships with customers, understanding their business needs and technical challenges
* Using your technical acumen and customer obsession, you’ll drive technical discussions regarding incidents, trade-offs, and risk management
* Consult with a range of partners from developers through to C-suite executives
* Collaborate with AWS Solutions Architects, Business Developers, Professional Services Consultants, and Sales Account Managers
* With a bias for action, you'll proactively find opportunities for customers to gain additional value from AWS
* Provide detailed reviews of service events, monthly & quarterly metrics, detailed pre-launch planning
* Solve a variety of problems across different customers as they migrate their workloads to the cloudA day in the life
A day in the lifeAbout the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Why AWS
Work/Life BalanceMentorship and Career GrowthWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Experience with operational parameters and troubleshooting for three (3) of the following: compute/storage/networking/CDN/databases/DevOps/big data and analytics/security/applications development in a distributed systems environment3+ years experience in Informational Technology operations Internal enterprise or external customer-facing experience

Experience with AWS services or other cloud offeringsPreferred language: Flemish, French, English

Key job responsibilities
You’ll advise on solutions, provide technical guidance and advocate for the customer
* Ensure AWS environments remain operationally healthy whilst reducing cost and complexity
* Develop trusting relationships with customers, understanding their business needs and technical challenges
* Using your technical acumen and customer obsession, you’ll drive technical discussions regarding incidents, trade-offs, and risk management
* Consult with a range of partners from developers through to C-suite executives
* Collaborate with AWS Solutions Architects, Business Developers, Professional Services Consultants, and Sales Account Managers
* With a bias for action, you'll proactively find opportunities for customers to gain additional value from AWS
* Provide detailed reviews of service events, monthly & quarterly metrics, detailed pre-launch planning
* Solve a variety of problems across different customers as they migrate their workloads to the cloudAbout the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Why AWS
Work/Life BalanceMentorship and Career GrowthWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

- Experience in a similar role as a Technical Account Manager, Consultant, Solutions Architect, Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, Cloud Architect etc.
- Understand operational parameters and troubleshooting for four (4) of the following: Compute / Storage / Networking / CDN / Databases / DevOps / Big Data and Analytics / Security / Architecture / Applications Development in a distributed systems environment · External customer-facing experience with the ability to clearly articulate to small and large audiences
- Ability to juggle tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment

As a Solutions Architect at AWS, you’ll build technical relationships with customers of all sizes and operate as their trusted advisor, ensuring they get the most out of the cloud at every stage of their journey.You’ll manage the overall technical relationship between AWS and our customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency to accelerate their challenging projects. Internally, you will be the voice of the customer, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features. In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to implement cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases.You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).
Key job responsibilities
This position is for someone who already has some technical and/or customer-facing skills and built some unique technical capabilities through their prior work or academic experience. The requirements listed below are expected of a perfect candidate who can hit the ground running on Day 1. You are not required to meet all of them, but we would like you to meet most of them. After joining us, you will be provided with a 3-month ramp-up plan . During this time, you will have an opportunity to bridge any gaps between your current capabilities and our expectations.* While we may occasionally guide you on what needs to be done, we expect you to manage execution/delivery of your projects completely autonomously
* We expect you to tackle ambiguous customer requirements, go beyond what they say and into what they really need, and develop new solutions that best match those needs. You will then need to present your solutions to the customers clearly, answering any questions that they may have.
* We expect you to be able to deeply understand AWS platform and architectural best practices. Using this knowledge, we expect you to guide our customers on how to architect their applications in the cloud taking into account variety of requirements, such as security, performance, scalability, availability, operability, and cost.
* We expect you to bring to our organization unique technical capability, be it specialized knowledge in a particular technical or industry domain, or other skill where you will become a go-to person within your team
* When working with our customers, we expect you to be able to influence entire engineering teams and their managers by demonstrating strong architectural competence and knowledge of cloud best practices
* When working with your colleagues at AWS, we expect you to influence other Solutions Architects, Sales, Marketing, and managers within your larger organization when discussing mid-term customer strategy and architectural best practices
* We expect you to independently develop and deliver public speaking in 1-to-many group settings, such as Meet-Ups or group sessions at the customer's site
* We expect you to independently develop and deliver internal training to various audiences, technical and non-technical, across entire AWS BeNeLux
* We expect you to independently develop reusable content, such as blog posts, podcasts, or small videos
* We expect you to independently develop new reusable demos of high complexity, present them to your own customers, and iterate on them until they reach the level of quality when your colleagues across larger organization would want to use them with their customersA day in the life
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life Balance

* Strong verbal and written communications skills in English
* Experience in infrastructure, database and networking architecture for highly available, internet-scale applications
* Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
* Working knowledge of one or more topics : DevOps, Big Data, Machine Learning, Serverless computing etc
* Knowledge of the latest technologies : NoSQL databases, Containers and Real time analytics solutions.

* Team / Project leading experience in an enterprise, emerging technology or consulting company.
* Experience in leading or contributing large scale service project (Open source projects or commercial service targeting global customers)
* Experience in leading or managing large service/data center migration or large IT infrastructure operation
* Experience in Agile Project Management, DevOps, ITIL methodology
* Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional, Cloud DevOps Engineering or Machine Learning )
* Experience with highly regulated industry

Our Public Sector teams help customers build a deeper understanding of hyper-scale cloud technology and application architectures, and they have the consultative skills required to drive successful outcomes.Internally, you will be an advocate acting on behalf of the customer to help drive continual improvements to the AWS platform, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features and services. You will also help shape the future of the Solutions Architecture organization by helping to hire, coach and mentor others.
You will participate in the creation and sharing of recommended practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).Key job responsibilities
* Fluent in Dutch is a mandatory requirement for the role
* Own the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific business initiatives and projects. You should understand the wider industry, with experience and skill in how applications and services are delivered and consumed.
* Develop a deep expertise in AWS technologies.
* Consult on and provide leadership for the broad AWS cloud strategy in Benelux public sector organisations. You will help customers articulate and navigate their cloud journey, and be accountable for ensuring tactical activities and point projects are aligned with the overall technical strategy.* Be a thought leader, comfortable with speaking in public. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
* Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS architecture community, including authoring or otherwise contributing to AWS customer-facing assets such as whitepapers, blogs, code, and sample architectures.
* Act as a technical liaison between customers, engineering teams and support.
* Demonstrate the "art of the possible" using demonstrations and proof-of-concept code.About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life Balance

* Fluent Dutch speaker
* In-depth knowledge of cloud computing, software and/or data engineering, and enterprise architecture principles.
* Strong background in delivering complex, mission-critical technology solutions.
* Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

* Hands-on experience with AWS core services, especially in designing scalable and highly available solutions.
* Experience in domains like infrastructure architecture, database architecture, software architecture, and networking.
* Experience working witch container orchestration technologies as well as CI/ CD tools, practices.
* Experience with application modernization.
* Experience working with public sector organisations, regulations, and procurement processes.

Amazon is a place where builders can build. Our internships offer exceptional opportunities for you to grow your technical and non-technical skills. From day one, you will be working with experienced engineers who love what they do.Associate Solutions Architect Intern
As an SA intern, you will receive AWS technical training, immerse yourself in cloud computing, develop business acumen, presentation delivery, and learn more about Amazon culture. You will work in a one on one project environment with the possibility of group projects, complete the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification, and attend professional development events.
Work/Life Harmony
Mentorship & Career Growth
Day in the life
What it's like being a Solutions Architect

· Currently in your penultimate or final year of a degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Mathematics / Technology / Related science/technical field. Ideally completing this degree post-internship.
· Interest and aptitude to learn about and deliver cloud-based solutions to customers.
· Knowledge of one of the programming languages like Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, C#, or C++ OR the interest and technical ability to learn a programming language.
· Fluent English + a European language.

· Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
· Knowledge of Networking fundamentals including Security, Storage or Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL), Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows)
· Experience with one or more of the following domains: systems administration (Linux/Window), network administration (DNS, IPsec, BGP, VPN, Load Balancing), or programming (Node.JS, Java, Ruby, C#, Python, or PHP).