Amazon Specialist Solutions Architect – Database 

China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island 

734961502

The specialist will collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements. You will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects in order to migrate Applications from on-premise Oracle/SQL*Server databases to AWS eg. AWS RDS, Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL or other Open Source platforms.You will focus on customer solutions such as high volume OLTP/OLAP environments, designing and deploying future state petabyte-scale data services and building and/or designing reference configurations to enable our customers and influence AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, and other NoSQL databases adoption.- Hands-on experiences: 10+ years experience with Relational and/or Non-Relational Database implementations, operations, performance tuning, and/or solution deployment experience in a business-critical, high-availability context (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and/or Redis).
- Database Migration experiences: Overall migration plan, Schema/Code migration, Change Data Capture (CDC) plan, resources plan, fallback plan, and etc.
- Application migration experiences: migration assessments, discovery the dependences, and move monoliths to microservices with decomposition and incremental changes
- Vertical knowledge on financial industries, retails, and telco; able to articulate end-to-end information flow of these focused vertical; and have related experience.
This is HK and Taiwan focused role and can be based in Hong Kong.Key job responsibilities
- Work directly with customers’ technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on the understood requirements. Drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, standard methodologies, project management and risk mitigation- Analyze database environments such as Oracle/SQL Server, or other Commercial DB Engines to Open Source Engines like Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, and etc.- Consult for optimal design of database environments, analyzing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance
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- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- 5+ years of design/implementation/operations/consulting with distributed applications experience
- 10+ years of provisioning, migrating, and managing end user computing and related services experience