Technical Account Manager

At Amazon, our vision is to be earth’s most customer-centric company. In 2006, we launched Amazon Web Services, giving customers access to the same cloud technology we built to serve millions of shoppers on Amazon.com. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering computing power, database storage, content delivery, and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow. Millions of businesses are using AWS cloud solutions to build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability.
As a trusted advisor you’ll have a direct impact in helping our customers gain the most value from cloud technology. You’ll craft and execute strategies to drive our customers’ adoption and use of AWS services. This includes a range of products including EC2, S3, DynamoDB & RDS databases, Lambda, CloudFront CDN, IoT and many more. Our Technical Account Managers partner with some of the most iconic businesses in the country. These range from rising startups building their business from scratch through to large enterprises going through significant transformation. You’ll provide advice on architecture, support strategy, project, and launch planning as well as ongoing operational issues.
Responsibilities include:
You’ll build solutions, provide technical guidance and advocate for the customer
Ensure AWS environments remain operationally healthy whilst reducing cost and complexity
Develop trusting relationships with customers, understanding their business needs and technical challenges
Using your technical acumen and customer obsession, you’ll drive technical discussions regarding incidents, trade-offs, and risk management
Consult with a range of partners from developers through to C-suite executives
Collaborate with AWS Solutions Architects, Business Developers, Professional Services Consultants, and Sales Account Managers
With a bias for action, you'll proactively find opportunities for customers to gain additional value from AWS
Provide detailed reviews of service disruptions, metrics, detailed pre-launch planning
Solve a variety of problems across different customers as they migrate their workloads to the cloud
Uplift customer capabilities by running workshops, brown bag sessions, etc.

As we continue to rapidly expand in EMEA, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to develop your technical, consulting and leadership skills. You’ll work with talented cloud technologists whilst expanding your knowledge of AWS products. You’ll also have the chance to receive mentor-ship and gain AWS certifications. Do you want to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption? We would love to hear from you.
Basic qualifications:
Experience in a similar role as a Technical Account Manager, Consultant, Solutions Architect, Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, Cloud Architect etc.
Understand operational parameters and troubleshooting for a combination of the following: Compute, Storage, Networking, CDN, Databases, DevOps, Big Data and Analytics, Security, Applications Development
Internal enterprise or external customer-facing experience with the ability to clearly articulate to small and large audiences
Ability to juggle tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment
Customer obsessed

Preferred qualifications:
Professional experience with AWS and/or other cloud offerings such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform etc.
Programming or scripting skills with a combination of Java, Python Perl, Ruby, C#, and/or PHP
Previous experience as a Software Engineer, Developer, DevOps Engineer etc.
Understanding of DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration / Deployment, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef etc.

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We’re passionate about supporting the needs of our people and their family members. Benefits include Healthcare, Employee Assistance Programs and Global Mobility opportunities.