Do you have a competitive drive to win? Are you the type of person who thrives on the thrill of the chase and driven by the feeling of coming out on top? Do you like helping customers implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems? Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping groups understand application architectures and integration approaches, and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success? We’re looking for someone to be part of our sales group, with your opinions valued as a technical resource as part of planning and strategies.

Amazon Web Services is looking for a Capture Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing business as part of our capture and proposal team. This is a strategic position for an IT professional who has deep technical experience and also worked with Department of Defense procurement, information security, IT management, and related disciplines.

As a Capture Solutions Architect within AWS, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Amazon’s utility computing web services (e.g., Amazon Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon CloudFront) directly for internal capture and proposal efforts, as well as our ecosystem of systems integrators, consulting and technology partners. Your broad responsibilities will include: evaluating industry trends across RFx materials in the RFx pipeline, and developing common strategies and architectures to address these trends; performing strategic analysis for specific RFx materials, and developing or aiding in the development of technical responses to customer RFIs and RFPs; working with customers and partners throughout the capture and proposal process; owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects; defining implementation architectures; helping partners develop architectures and understanding AWS services; 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; and being a subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services.

As a Capture Solutions Architect on our team, you will provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our customers while working with a world class sales and business development team. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community. You will gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about the following:

- Helping our customers to design and create cloud computing architectures
- Our company credo: “Work hard. Have fun. Make history.” It’s critical to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers.
- Deep-dive technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends.
- With experience in the following key areas:
- Technical presentation experience – White board, small and large group presentations
- Technical – Web Services development/deployment experience, cloud computing
- Operational – Web site/services operations, management, and security
- Some travel (