DESCRIPTION

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled DevOps Architect to join our team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, you’ll work closely with customers to design, implement, and manage AWS solutions that meet their technical requirements and business objectives. You’ll be a key player in driving customer success through their cloud journey, providing technical expertise and best practices throughout the project lifecycle. Possessing a deep understanding of AWS products and services, as a DevOps Architect you will be proficient in architecting complex, scalable, and secure solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of each customer. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, assess current infrastructure, and propose effective migration strategies to AWS. As trusted advisors to our customers, providing guidance on industry trends, emerging technologies, and innovative solutions, you will be responsible for leading the implementation process, ensuring adherence to best practices, optimizing performance, and managing risks throughout the project.
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 strong success for the Customer. 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.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage large projects or smaller engagements independently using your business and technical skills
• Deliver best practices recommendations and highly technical implementations with cross-product integrations based on customer needs
• Share best practices with customers of all sizes on the value proposition of , and conduct one-to-few and one-to-many workshop sessions to transfer knowledge to customers
• Build deep relationships with our customers across the board and become a technical advisor solving complex challenges
• Write or otherwise contribute to customer-facing publications such as whitepapers and blog posts
• Work with the professional services leadership team to hire, develop, train, and promote the practice

About the team
AWS Global Services
AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You’ll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.
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.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
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
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders (technical or non-technical)
• Strong hands-on experience building CI/CD workflows and using scripting languages (one or more languages, e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, Go, PowerShell)
• Excellent experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloudformation…)
• Strong experience with automation tools

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Hands-on experience with software deployment and orchestration technologies e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible in production environments
• Hands-on experience with serverless technologies · Hands-on experience with continuous services like Code Deploy, Jenkins, Bamboo and Artifactory
• Understanding of microservices and distributed architecture
• AWS Developer and Engineer certified or similar certifications or equivalent practical experience
  Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.
  Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner

• Manage large projects or smaller engagements independently using your business and technical skills
• Deliver best practices recommendations and highly technical implementations with cross-product integrations based on customer needs
• Share best practices with customers of all sizes on the value proposition of , and conduct one-to-few and one-to-many workshop sessions to transfer knowledge to customers
• Build deep relationships with our customers across the board and become a technical advisor solving complex challenges
• Write or otherwise contribute to customer-facing publications such as whitepapers and blog posts
• Work with the professional services leadership team to hire, develop, train, and promote the practic