Associate Professional Services Consultant - 2020

Note: By applying to this position, your application will be considered for all locations we hire for in the United States including, but not limited to: Seattle, WA; Washington DC Metro area; New York City; Chicago, IL; and San Francisco, CA

Do you have a deep passion for utilizing technology to empower businesses? Are you passionate about collaborating with technology and business leaders to deliver cloud-based solutions?

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com and a leader in Cloud Computing, is seeking early career talent to join our AWS Tech U Program. This is a unique opportunity for driven, self-starters to play a key role in a fast-growing business, and to deliver significant value to AWS customers of all sizes from nimble startups to global brands. You will learn from top AWS subject matter experts and get paid while you train for an exciting career in the tech industry.

These are some of the most challenging and exciting roles in the IT industry today. We work with cutting edge technologies supporting the largest and most innovative businesses, non-profits, and government agencies around the world. This is a an unparalleled opportunity to leapfrog your peers and take a leadership role helping AWS to transform the way the world uses technology to solve their business challenges. The skills and experiences you gain will be highly sought after throughout the industry and give you the opportunity for the career of a lifetime.

Associate Professional Services Consultant

In this role, you must possess the following:

- An affinity for the new and unknown. We are always experimenting with innovative technologies including Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, and Internet of Things.

- Enjoy working with customers of all shapes and sizes. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers ranging from small businesses to large enterprises.

About Tech U

As an Associate Professional Services Consultant, you will be part of AWS Tech U, which is an accelerated career development program for those who want to advance both their technical and business skills. The Program will provide you with training and work experience that aligns in the fields of Solutions Architecture, Technical Training and Professional Service Consulting.

This unique program consists of a 6-month instructor lead, project-based learning curriculum (where you must be open to both Herndon, VA, and Seattle, WA for this portion of the program), followed by a 6-month On-the-Job Training (OJT) learning assignment within Solutions Architecture, Technical Training, or Professional Services Consulting, located in a U.S. city (location TBD as based on the needs of the business). AWS will provide relocation assistance for both the academic and OJT training assignments. At the end of your six months of OJT, you will choose a track suited to your strengths and preference.

These tracks include:

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)

Application Developer – AppDev resources are specialists in designing applications that run natively in the cloud. They are experts in building programs that run on any number of platforms including virtualized instances, containers, or server less architecture.

Data Lake & Analytics Specialist – This role will specifically focus on Data processing capabilities and helping our customers and partners to remove the constraints that prevent our customers from leveraging their data to develop business insights. Engagements will include migration of existing applications and development of new applications using AWS cloud services.

Data Warehouse & MPP Specialist – This role will specifically focus on large scale data warehousing and database migration capabilities. Engagements will include Redshift implementations and helping customers to migrate from their existing on-premises data warehouses using other databases to Amazon Redshift.

Data Engineer – In this role, you will work with our partners, customers and focus on our AWS Analytics service offering such Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, Athena, AWS ML, and more.

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

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· Enrolled in a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields

· Graduating between August 2019 and July 2020

· Experience with one of the following programming languages: Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, C#, or C++

· Experience with Networking fundamentals, Security, Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL), Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows)

· Experience with QA, testing, helpdesk, IT support, or any technician or quality assurance type work

· Experience implementing a cloud-based technology solution in a school project or while working for a company

· Experience with one or more of the following domains: systems administration (Linux/Window), network administration (DNS, IPsec, BGP, VPN, Load Balancing), or programming (Node.JS, Java, Ruby, C#, C++, Python, or PHP)

Amazon does not sponsor for immigration, including for H-1B, TN, and other non-immigrant visas, for this role.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.