Associate Cloud Consultant, DevOps, AWS Professional Services

Do you enjoy leading, guiding, and influencing customers and team members throughout the DevOps journey? As an AWS DevOps Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the world’s most complex challenges. You will apply your deep technical expertise to solve cloud-based solutions at scale. You will guide customers through transforming their business with the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that deliver end-to-end applications and infrastructure solutions.

You will join as part of the AWS Professional Services (ProServe) Associate to Consultant (A2C), which focuses on the accelerated career development of university graduates and early career professionals.

Our team members work with enterprise customers locally, regionally and domestically. As such, this role has up to 75% travel associated. While many of our customers engage ProServe virtually, there is always the potential that a customer might choose to include travel in their contract.


Key job responsibilities
The DevOps Consultant is an emerging leader with previous experience in a DevOps role. The DevOps Consultant will collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements. A successful candidate has technical depth and hands-on implementation experience of various practices and tools in the DevOps toolchain. The DevOps Consultant is comfortable rolling up their sleeves to design and code modules for infrastructure, application, and processes.

About the team
AWS Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about customer success. Our consultants will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.

You will also have the opportunity to create white papers, author blogs, build demos and other reusable collateral that can be used by our customers. Most importantly, you will work with our Solution Architects, Data Scientists and Service Engineering teams.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 85,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and 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 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We are a customer-obsessed organization—leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. As such, this is a customer facing role in a hybrid delivery model. Project engagements include remote delivery methods and onsite engagement that will include travel to customer locations as needed.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our 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.

Basic Qualifications

* Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field with a conferral date within May 2023 to May 2025
* 1+ years of hands-on experience of programming in languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, Node.js, or similar object-oriented language.

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience with automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure.
* Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, using CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK, or other tools.
* Experience developing cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Code Deploy (AWS) and/or GitLab Pipelines.
* Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless technology.
* Experience with the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) and delivery using Agile practices.
* Experience with configuration management frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments.
* Knowledge of code Version Control branching strategies
* Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing, and firewall.
* Experience with monitoring and log aggregation frameworks such as Kafka, Logstash, Splunk, ElastiSearch, and Kibana.
* Knowledge of the DORA metrics and how they relate to the SDLC process
* Experience implementing and designing cloud native security concepts, DevSecOps, or MLOps.
* AWS Certification(s) such as Solutions Architect Pro, DevOps Engineer Pro, SysOps Admin, Developer Associate.
* Strong presentation, verbal communication, and written communications skills.

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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $88,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $192,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.