Delivery Consultant - Database, AWS Professional Services, AWS Professional Services

Are you an experienced commercial or open-source database platform specialist? Do you like to solve the most complex and high scale data challenges and help organizations understand and use cloud computing web services to do big new things faster, at a lower cost?

The Amazon Web Services Professional

Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Database Delivery Consultant to help customers implement database transformations and realize business opportunities. You will collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements and will develop and deliver proof-of- concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects in order to migrate customer environments to AWS cloud based database platforms. Our professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions such as high volume mission critical OLTP/OLAP environments, batch data processing, designing and deploying future state petabyte-scale data warehouse service and building and/or designing reference configurations to enable our customers and influence AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB and Redshift adoption.

The databases team provides direct to customer, back office and packaged delivery consulting services to customers remotely from a centralized location. Our consultants are builders and deliver projects, technical workshops, and lead implementation projects with customers around the globe. These professional services engagements focus on customer solutions such as, web applications, enterprise applications, high performance computing, batch processing, big data, archiving, disaster recovery, migration, security risk and compliance.

Key job responsibilities

As an experienced technology professional, you will be responsible for:

1.Employ customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, standard methodologies, project management and risk mitigation.

2.Work closely with AWS Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams to help ensure the success of project consulting engagements with customer.

3.Work directly with customers’ technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on the understood requirements.

4.Think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment

5.Analyze on-premises database environments such as Oracle, SQL Server, or other Commercial DB Engines to Open-Source Engines like Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL or RedShift, DynamoDB.

6.Work with customers to migrate their database environments to AWS. This may include but is not limited to Re-Host database platform on AWS, Upgrade/Optimize for AWS, Re-Factor to open-source database platform on AWS.

7.Consult for optimal design of database environments, analyzing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance.

8.Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems. This is a customer-facing role with potential travel to customer sites as needed.

About the team

About AWS

Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job below, 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 - 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 (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

- 3+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
  • Knowledge of the primary aws services
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