Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, Database background, and sales skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses? Join the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) Data & AI team as a Specialist Solution Architect!

Key job responsibilities
The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), which is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #One Team.

A day in the life
Within WWSO, this position is a part of the Geo Specialist team, where you will lead technical strategy for AWS’ Database services for LATAM customers. We create sales plays, leverage partners, and build new initiatives that drive results for our customers. We provide critical feedback from customers to inform our product roadmap and work closely with our partner network to build an ecosystem supporting our customers’ goals. In emerging areas, we play a critical role as the “first in” teams to build markets for new services, domains, or solutions with deep technical Database background. When a customer needs to innovate and requires a new way to leverage AWS, they count on us to innovate with them to build and deliver what they need.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship and Career Growth:

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience in Database Administration and strong troubleshooting skills (tuning and optimization, deadlocks, schema design) with any Relational Database Engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLServer)
• 5+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
• 5+ years of database migration and modernization projects experience.
• 8+ years as a Database Administrator (DBA) Specialist with hands-on database administration experience, including experience in Database Management & Maintenance, Performance Optimization, Security & Compliance, High Availability & Disaster Recovery, Data Migration & Integration and Collaboration & Support.
• 4+ years of database administration experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience with RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Redshift and/or other RDBMS systems
• Knowledge of SQL, Linux, OLAP, and relational, NoSQL & multi-dimensional databases
• Experience with industry standard tools and scripting languages (Python or Perl) for automation
• Experience with cloud database services (AWS RDS, Aurora, Azure SQL, Oracle SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra).

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