AWS Sales Engineer

Company: Futuralis
Location: Seattle
Posted on: February 20, 2021

Job Description:

Job Title AWS Cloud Sales Engineer

Location Seattle, WA (currently remote due to COVID-19)

Type Full-Time / Contract W2 / Contract

Futuralis Tech is a global technology consulting firm raising standards in cloud services. Our mission is to help clients harness the benefits of the cloud. Our holistic approach integrates all aspects of IT into the overarching cloud strategy to reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve security.

Are you passionate about developing simple, elegant solutions to complex problems? Do you like working closely with customers and delighting them with amazing user experiences?

Description

As an Cloud Sales Engineer, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy for building data specific solutions to the customers challenging problems using AWS toolset (Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB). You will be the thought leader to define the solution space for these challenging problems and leverage your depth in Big Data and Analytics.

The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges and have a passion for educating, training, and designing cloud solutions for enterprise customers in the leveraging Data and Analytics technology toolset.

Requirements

-- 10+ years of experience with enterprise application architecture strategies, patterns, standards and reference implementations in alignment with overall IT strategy for our customers.

-- Support company to help formulate a strategy for the adoption of AWS tools in any vertical.

-- Work with existing and potential customers to deeply understand their business and technical needs. Develop solutions that make the best use of the AWS Cloud platform and Analytics Services. Be part of AWS sales, costing, and support teams to ensure customer success.

-- Exhibit Thought Leadership. Evangelize AWS Services and Analytics Solutions that benefit customers. Share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public speaking events such as AWS Summit and AWS reInvent.

-- Act as technical liaison between customers and the service engineering teams, providing product improvement feedback to AWS developers and accelerating the adoption of new features in customer deployments.

-- Help provide one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.

-- Capture and share best-practice knowledge pertaining to Data Analytics technologies among the AWS solutions architecture community.

-- Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.

-- Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.

-- Be able to occasionally roll up their sleeves and help with quick POCs for customers specific to their depth.

Basic Qualifications

-- 3+ years design/implementation/consulting experience

-- 3+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking

-- 2+ years relevant experience in technology/software sales or pre-sales consulting

-- Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies

-- Technical degree (Computer Science or Engineering) or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

-- Technical knowledge and experience in applications of AWS and Data Analytics platforms towards common industry workloads

-- 3+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking

-- 5+ years of experience in Big Data technologies (including Hadoop, Spark and distributed query engines)

-- Graduate degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering or Math.

-- Experience architecting, operating cloud-based solutions.

-- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.

-- Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies.

-- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.

-- Ability to present with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers

-- Experience in technology/software sales or pre-sales consulting and costing.

-- Experience with a programming or scripting language.

-- Company- or regional-level recognition in the Data Analytics field (conference presentations, Meet-Ups, etc).

-- Ability to understand complex application data flows and bridge the gap between technical and business app requirements.

-- Operational experience working with website/web services as well as traditional IT networking, operations, management, and security experience.

-- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Additional Qualifications

2 or more AWS Certifications

Benefits

• Paid Time Off(PTO)
• Employer-sponsored health insurance
• 401(k) plan w/ employer match
• Employer-paid Trainings and Certifications
• Performance Bonus
  Futuralis Tech is a global technology consulting firm raising standards in cloud services. Our mission is to help clients harness the benefits of the cloud. Our holistic approach integrates all aspects of IT into the overarching cloud strategy to reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve security.

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