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Senior Solutions Architect, National Security & Defence

Senior Solutions Architect, National Security & Defence

Amazon Web Services Canada, Inc. • Ottawa, Ontario, CAN
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Solutions Architect to help design and deliver advanced cloud computing solutions to Canadian National Security & Defence (NSD) customers. You will be a member of a dynamic team, bringing the latest in disruptive, cloud computing technology to solve mission orientated problems in this vertical. You will be a key member of the business development and sales team and part of the larger AWS Worldwide Public Sector team.

As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will partner with customers, sales, and other AWS technical teams to craft highly flexible and resilient architectures that address customer mission challenges. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud solutions. You will seek out opportunities to broaden the use of AWS across customer organizations.

The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of the Canadian Government, Canadian Military, the Defense ecosystem, cloud computing landscape, application modernization initiatives, and security requirements. They also have customer-facing skills that will allow them to represent AWS within a customer's environment, present cloud computing concepts and architectures to diverse audiences, and drive discussions with technical and non-technical customer personnel at all levels of an organization. They should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, mission, product, complex architectures, and technical challenges from a customer perspective and lead a team of solution architects and other technical resources in this context.

Key job responsibilities
1. Learning about AWS services and solutions
2. Advancing the sales cycle by explaining AWS services and solutions to customers
3. Advocating on behalf of customers for new features and capabilities

A day in the life
Solutions architects are part of the sales organization. They often meet with customers to understand their business and technical challenges, crafting solutions that leverage AWS products and services. To ensure they can bring the best solutions forward a portion of their time is dedicated to learning and experimentation with the latest technologies.

About the team
The National Security and Defence Solutions Architecture team is mission focused, with team members able to use their former military experience and knowledge of IT systems, to solve problems that make an impact for the Canadian Armed Forces and broader Defence Industrial Base.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 3+ years of professional or military experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers
- Experience in a technical role within a sales organization

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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