As a solutions architect in the US Federal Civilian, Sciences team you will help civilian agencies such as NASA and the Department Of Energy meet their mission goals through using cloud. You will be part of a collaborative team focused on personal and professional growth with both mentorship and the mentoring of others.

Each Solutions Architect has a super power, and we'd love to talk about yours!

Some of the work that has been done involve creating data processing pipelines for data coming from satellites, helping researchers process data more quickly through high performance computing, and even helping enable the sharing of science with the public in a scalable way through web sites.

As a 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., AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS RDS, HPC, and AWS CloudFront) directly with customers and our ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance.


Key job responsibilities
Your broad responsibilities will include:
- Helping U.S. Federal Civilian Government organizations implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems.
- Owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects.
- Defining implementation architectures, responding to RFPs, 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.
- Being a subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services.


A day in the life
The Solutions Architects on our team provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to the Federal Civilian Government markets while working with a sales and business development team. They lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solution architect community. You get to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture!

About the team
About AWS
AWS 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.

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