Solution Architect, Latam Cloud Solutions Center

5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Technical degree desired; Electrical, Computer, or Networking Engineering, Information Technology, MIS, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics.
- Great communication skills and ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions to both large and small audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly; ability to think abstractly. Knowledge of scripting languages and coding skills (C/C++/C#, Node.JS, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby).
- English fluent, written and verbal.
- Experience in technology/software sales, pre-sales, or consulting (customer facing experience)

Do you want to help or customers to adopt cutting edge cloud computing technology, solve the biggest of “big data” problems, work with Internet scale distributed systems, and see the impact of your work with happy and successful customers?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth, business knowledge, and strong interpersonal skills. You will partner with customers and several AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems. As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of AWS within organizations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect.
**Here are some other qualities we are looking for**:
Be great fun to work with. At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.
Enjoy working with customers of all shapes and sizes. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers ranging from small businesses to large enterprises. Expect to help our customers design flexible and scalable solutions, and work on some of the most complex challenges in large-scale computing.
Key job responsibilities
- Build a strong foundation of knowledge around AWS cloud services and the cloud ecosystem
- Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS
- Assist with training sessions for customers considering or already using AWS
- Collaborate with experienced solutions architects to craft and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
- Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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.
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.
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 and 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.
- Experience in technology/software sales, pre-sales, or consulting
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics. Experience with design/implementation/consulting experience of distributed systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
- Working knowledge of AWS services, such as Elastic Compute Cloud, Elastic Block Storage, and Simple Storage Service. Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS. Experience with solution-selling methodologies.
- AWS Cloud Practitioner and AWS Soluti