Cloud Operations Architect, UAE, MENAT

Would you like to join one of the fastestgrowing organizations within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and help customers of all industries and sizes gain the best value and service from AWS Cloud Operations Architect drive our customers creative and transformative spirit of innovation across all technologies including Compute Storage Database Big Data Applicationlevel Services Networking Serverless Deployment Security and more. This is not a sales role but rather an opportunity to be the principal technical advisor and voice of the customer to organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.

The Role

As a Cloud Operations Architect you will help craft and execute strategies to drive our customers adoption and use of AWS services including EC2 S3 DynamoDB & RDS databases Lambda CloudFront CDN IoT and many more. Your technical acumen and customerfacing skills will enable you to effectively represent AWS within a customers environment and drive discussions with senior leadership regarding incidents tradeoffs support and risk management.
You will provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices and proactively keep your customers AWS environments operationally healthy. The close relationships developed with your customers will allow you to understand their business/operational needs and technical challenges and help them achieve the greatest value from AWS. This position will require the ability to travel 10% or more as needed.
The Cloud Operations Architect is the centerpiece of value to our Enterprise Support customers. If you wish to be at the forefront of innovation come join us!

AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small and midmarket accounts to enterpriselevel customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that worldclass support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building missioncritical applications on top of AWS services.



Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
Youll advise on solutions provide technical guidance and advocate for the customer
* Ensure AWS environments remain operationally healthy whilst reducing cost and complexity
* Develop trusting relationships with customers understanding their business needs and technical challenges
* Using your technical acumen and customer obsession youll drive technical discussions regarding incidents tradeoffs and risk management
* Consult with a range of partners from developers through to Csuite executives
* Collaborate with AWS Solutions Architects Business Developers Professional Services Consultants and Sales Account Managers
* With a bias for action youll proactively find opportunities for customers to gain additional value from AWS
* Provide detailed reviews of service events monthly & quarterly metrics detailed prelaunch planning
* Solve a variety of problems across different customers as they migrate their workloads to the cloud

About the team
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3 years of technical engineering experience
Experience with operational parameters and troubleshooting for three (3) of the following: compute/storage/networking/CDN/databases/DevOps/big data and analytics/security/applications development in a distributed systems environment
Bachelors degree

Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
Experience in internal enterprise or external customerfacing environment as a technical lead
UAE Citizen (Emirati)

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