Associate Professional Services Consultant

A degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Mathematics / Technology / Related science/technical field OR equivalent training, certifications, and/or experience (0-2 years). - Interest and aptitude to learn about and deliver cloud-based solutions to customers. - Knowledge of one of the programming languages like Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, C#, or C++ OR the interest and technical ability to learn a programming language.

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking recent graduates, early career professionals, and advanced career professionals with limited hands on technical experience, who are interested in a career as an Associate Professional Services Consultant to participate in the AWS Tech U training program to advance their technical and professional skills.

AWS Tech U is a 6 month accelerated workforce development program focused on helping recent graduates and early career professionals build technical and professional skills to start technical careers at AWS. The program features a cohort-based training led by AWS technical instructors. You will complete a specialized curriculum, shadow AWS experts, and receive coaching and on-the-job training to help you succeed in your new role. Associates will also complete the certification exams for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate.

Do you want to experiment with innovative technologies, including Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, and Internet of Things? Are you passionate about educating, training, designing, and building enterprise cloud computing solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers?

Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.

Associate Professional Services Consultant

As an Associate Professional Services Consultant, you will partner with customers and several AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build min-share and broad use of AWS within organizations

The program offers the opportunity to specialize in an area of interest including:

- DevOps Specialist - A leader in building advanced computing systems that harness continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines and utilize the strengths of cloud computing to build scalable and economical systems for clients.
- Cloud Infrastructure Architect - An expert in cloud-based networking and system rollouts. CIAs specialize in network performance, infrastructure provisioning, and building Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
- Data & Analytics - Data & Analytics role supports our services that leverage data and produce business insights, which may include using Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI). Helping our customers use and integrate Big Data services in what is arguably our industry’s most exciting space. The portfolio of services covers EMR (Hadoop), DynamoDB (NoSQL), MongoDB, and Apache Cassandra
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly. - Knowledge of Networking fundamentals including Security, Storage or Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL), Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows) - Experience with infrastructure as code, ops automation, and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible. - Knowledge of the primary AWS services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53, and S3.