Job DescriptionWe are a fastest growing partner to the world's major cloud provider, AWS. Workmates is looking for passionate and customer obsessed AWS Solutions Architect to join our AWS Practice. You will help drive innovation, build differentiated solutions, and define new customer experiences for our customers. You'll work with smart people across our industry specialist organizations, and technology groups to help our customers get the most out of AWS in their cloud journey.
Choosing Workmates and the AWS Practice will take your AWS experience and skills to the next level and allow you to work in an innovative and collaborative environment. At Workmates, you can lead the world's AWS growing partner on the path to native cloud transformation and help us on the leading edge of cloud.
Choose Workmates and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career. At Workmates, we believe that people manpower are our biggest assets. Let's bring-in a best in class cloud native operations together. Come join our mission of building innovations across Cloud Management, Media, DevOps, Automation, IoT, Security, and more. Be a part of it where independence and ownership are respected so you can be you.
Join Us If you are: A motivated, inquisitive architect. You enjoy using your consulting skills to deliver innovative solutions that help our clients improve the services they provide. Driven by curiosity, you explore how new technologies can be applied to solve challenging business problems. You thrive in a collaborative, creative and productive team environment where ideas are freely exchanged, and innovative concepts evolve into practical solutions.
Responsibilities: - Serve as a key technical member of the Business Development team in helping to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform.
- Scope each customer engagement, with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria. Engage with partners' developers, architects, designers, hardware engineers, project managers, and management teams. Own each technical engagement, and help ensure a timely and successful delivery of value.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the solution architect community. Able to create technical content that is easily adopted and reusable by others.
- Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects, and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform. Help potential customers embrace latest Cloud Solution. Handling all Pre-Sales and Post-Sales activities. Understanding client's requirements and preparing RFI, RFP, RFQ Responses for Cloud based projects. Research on customers (company overview, market share, key contacts, incumbents etc.) Competition Intelligence / Analysis (Key Initiatives, market presence, strategy, SWOT analysis).
- The ideal candidate will possess customer facing skills that will allow them to represent Workmates well within a customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel within the company, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance to software developers and architects. He/she should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges. Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures. Provide technical training and consultation to strategical development partners. Root cause customer issues and provide resolution to unblock development or improve experience.
RequirementsBasic Requirement:- Knowledge of Cloud and virtualized environments. Strong understanding about all available AWS cloud services in IaaS & PaaS offerings. Understanding Customers requirements with respect to both Infra & Application working / flow / deployment. 5+ years of design/implementation/consulting experience with distributed applications or equivalent education experience. 4+ years of hands-on Infrastructure / Troubleshooting / Systems Administration / Networking / DevOps / Applications Development experience in a distributed systems environment. Background in following or related to Technology Architect, Consultant, Cloud Architect, Technical Lead, Software Developer, Engineering Lead, Pre Sales Engineer or Systems Engineer.
- Should have good knowledge on AWS, Enterprise Sales, presales, Cloud Migration. Good to basic understanding about different cloud platforms.
- Technical degree required, Computer Science background is highly desired. As a Solutions Architect, you will have to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services.
- Good understanding of DevOps technologies such as CI/CD, Containers etc.
- Would be an added advance if have capability to develop automation scripts (using Python / Jython / Shell / Power shell/ VB scripts) and batch files for automation of system and application administration on cloud. Familiarity with datacenter concepts and best practices, high-availability systems, capacity planning, system performance evaluation, and diagnostic techniques and methodologies
Must Have Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Good to have Certifications: - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional.
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.
- Thorough expertise/practice in software development is a great plus.
- Experience with Service Mesh and Distributed tracing.
- Exposure to assessment tools like Cloudamize, Risk etc.
- Strong communication skills to effectively communicate, make strategic recommendations to Sr. Mgmt as well as all levels of internal/external service partners.
- Create good presentations with all relevant information geared create SOW with proper understanding of the customers requirement.
- Closed at least 4-5 Big Deals on Cloud Migration/ Workload Hosting/Application Development/SAAS Offering