Overview
In this role you act as a principal technical advisor to AWS customers, guiding adoption and best practices across a wide range of AWS services. You will build trusted relationships with diverse stakeholders, help keep environments healthy, and discuss incidents, risks, and trade-offs with senior leadership. Your work spans from startups to enterprises, including public sector, with a focus on driving value and cost-aware optimization. You’ll collaborate with multiple AWS teams to unlock additional value and support customer success at scale.
Responsibilities
- Advise on solutions and provide technical guidance to customers
- Maintain operational health of AWS environments while reducing cost and complexity
- Develop trusted relationships by understanding business needs and technical challenges
- Drive technical discussions regarding incidents, trade-offs, and risk management
- Consult with customers across a spectrum from developers to C-suite executives
- Collaborate with AWS Solutions Architects, Business Developers, Professional Services Consultants, and Sales Account Managers
- Identify proactive opportunities for customers to gain more value from AWS
- Provide detailed reviews of service events, metrics, and pre-launch planning
- Assist customers in migrating workloads to the cloud across varied environments
Key requirements
- Experience troubleshooting 3+ of: compute, storage, networking, CDN, databases, DevOps, big data and analytics, security, or applications development in distributed systems
- Customer obsession
- Strong communication with executive stakeholders
- Collaborative mindset
- AWS services or other cloud offerings (preferred)
- Experience with operational parameters and troubleshooting across multiple technologies
- Ability to discuss incidents, trade-offs, and risk management in technical terms
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