Job Description

DESCRIPTIONSales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.Are you excited to work with the team that enables India\'s leading Fintech organisations to build innovative services with AWS, scaling to serve billion+ Indians? The FSI team in AWS India is looking for a Solutions Architect who can work with our customers who have built new business models on the foundations of payment infrastructure like UPI, widespread 4G internet access, affordable smartphones, exploding digital content, identity infrastructure like Aadhar and world class cloud infrastructure.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. An ideal candidate will have owned the architecture and designed IT systems deployed at scale, have worked as a part of Centre of Excellence, Innovation Centres etc. to investigate adoption of new technologies, have experience with multiple technologies, patterns and frameworks; and is able to figure out trade-offs between them, be hands-on, and can roll up their sleeves should need be to do Proof of Concepts and demonstrate technologies. Candidate should be good at identifying repeatable pattern and best practices, picking up new technologies & constant learners.The ideal candidate will possess customer facing skills that will allow them to represent Amazon Web Services India Pvt Ltd. (AWS India) well within a customer 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 in India. S/he should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.Key job responsibilities
The selected candidate will work with Fintech customers to map/model business requirements & user access patterns to technology & performance requirement: compare between various design patterns: discern between variety of data technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL) & compute technology - servers, container, and serverless, design for required scaling, high availability goals, while minimizing the cost & meeting security requirements: design Disaster Recovery solutions for required RTO/RPO: Advise on building DevOps pipelines & process : advise on monitoring Infrastructure & Applications using AWS technologies such as CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Conduct Well Architected Reviews, partner with AWS Specialists in areas like AI, Analytics, Media etc. to implement innovative solutions, collaborate with the Service Teams to identify feature gaps suggest new features & present to Technical communities and customer C-Suite on Architecture Patterns, Best practices, Case Studies.Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.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.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Bangalore, KA, INDBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 7+ years as solutions architecting experience of large-scale systems
- Understanding of various design patterns like N-tier, micro-services, stateful vs stateless, request-response vs loose coupled vs reactive, batch/micro-batch/real-time, etc.
- Proven experience on containers technologies in the industry (Docker, Kubernetes), micro-services and DevOps practices
- Design, implementation & deployment experience of advanced Containerized solutions, Analytics solutions preferably using Spark, Kafka, Hive, Presto
- Expertise in open source programming & frameworks, API development/consumption
- Experience with multiple databases (RDBMS, NoSQL) and other common technologies such as Search Engines, Streaming & Queues
- 2+ years of experience with at least one cloud platform
- Understanding of Load Balancers, Network (subnets, NATs, Gateways), CDN, HTTP1/2, Storage systems, Security (Authentication/Authorization, SSL)
- Understanding of distributed system design (CAP Theorem, Quorum selection, Circuit Breaking etc.)
- Basic understanding of Infrastructure & Application monitoringPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Computer Science or Math background highly desired; working knowledge of software development practices and technologies highly desired
- Degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- Experience with Containerisation, various Databases (RDBMS/NoSQL)
- Contribution to Open Source projects
- Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering techniques
- Active tech blogger

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