Sr. Application Architect, Professional Services

Are you an experienced cloud architect/developer who can assist our customers in design and development of cloud native applications and/or re-engineering applications that can fully leverage the AWS Cloud? Do you like to work on a variety of game changing projects, at the forefront of application development and cloud technology adoption? This role is open for Mumbai/Pune/Bangalore/ Hyderabad.
In order for applications to be cloud optimized they need to be well-architected enabling them to reap the benefits of elasticity, horizontal scalability, automation and high availability. On the AWS platform services such as Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Elastic Container Services to name just a few, provide opportunities to design and build cloud ready applications.

AWS ProServe India LLP is looking for highly talented hands on technical architects to help accelerate our growing Professional Services business in India. This is an opportunity to join Amazon's world class technical teams, working with some of the brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.

Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for internal customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about success for the internal customers. 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.

Amazon aims to be the most customer centric company on earth. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers critical applications for hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for hands on application architects/developers who are passionate about:

• Previous experiences as Software / Solution Architect, Lead Architect or similar role

• Experience in architecting, designing and developing applications that leverage AWS services

• Experience in designing scalable, highly available applications using containers, serverless technologies and event-driven architectures

• Prior consulting experience working directly with customers and partners.

• Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends, emerging technologies and assist customer in infrastructure and application development

• Providing technical guidance and troubleshooting support throughout project delivery

• Expert level proficiency in at least one programming language (Typescript/ NodeJS/AngularJS/ReactJS/ Java/C#/GOLang)

• Familiarity with AWS Storage, SQL and No SQL databases with awareness of protocols such as gRPC, Web-sockets and graphql

• Knowledge of cloud architecture design patterns, Event driven, Micro-services architecture

• Preferred experience in optimize cloud systems for scalability, security, and performance

• Experience in agile software development

• Advising and implementing AWS best practices

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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
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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:
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience in cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system
- Technical degree or equivalent experience; Computer Science or Engineering background preferred; Masters Degree desired.
- 15+ years of an application programming and/or hands-on technical application architecture experience
- 15+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles.
- Ability to travel to client locations as needed (25-40%)

Preferred Qualifications:
- AWS Professional level certification
- Extensive experience architecting, designing and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment
- Experience with designing and building application using AWS services such as EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks o Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
- Hands on programing skills in any of the following: Java, , Ruby, .NET or Scala
- Agile software development expert
- Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins) Hands on familiarity with CloudFormation Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible)
- Practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems

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