Senior Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers, Application Modernization

About the role

Containers now run some of the most demanding systems on AWS, from real-time payment processing to large-scale AI inference. As more companies move production workloads onto Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), AWS Fargate, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), they face harder questions about scaling, cost, and security. They need architects who go deep. In this role you will help organizations worldwide answer those questions, and you will shape the container services they depend on.

You will reach customers and partners primarily through scale: workshops, reusable content, and enablement that help many organizations at once. Through these motions you will work closely with customers and partners, learning their requirements firsthand and turning them into production-ready architectures.

You will bring that real-world feedback and usage data to product teams to influence feature development and future roadmaps. As a strategic technical leader in the field, you will provide architectural guidance that accelerates partner engagements worldwide while guiding an internal community of container subject matter experts.

Key job responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor on containers, helping customers and partners design, build, and run production workloads on Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, and Amazon ECR with a focus on security, cost efficiency, and reliability.
• Channel customer feedback and usage data to product teams to shape feature development and product roadmaps.
• As part of the container go-to-market team, apply deep technical expertise to unblock customers' largest and most critical business challenges.
• Guide and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts aligned to the containers domain.
• Develop reference architectures, guides, and workshops as repeatable, practical resources that scale enablement across the field and partners.

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

Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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 in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

• USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually
• USA, CA, San Francisco - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually
• USA, GA, Atlanta - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, IL, Chicago - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually
• USA, TX, Austin - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, TX, Dallas - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Arlington - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually