Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced Storage Solutions Architect to guide our customers on data storage best practices and to help shape the future growth of our storage services. As a storage Subject Matter Expert (SME), you will be an authority on architectures that leverage AWS services to increase availability and drive down costs for our customers.

In this role, you will partner closely with the US ISV Storage Sales Specialist team to enable large-scale customer use cases and to help drive the adoption of AWS storage services. Thought leadership plays an important part in this role as you look for new ways to maximize value for our customers by establishing best practices and proposing enhancements and features for our storage services. As our portfolio of storage services continues to grow, you will leverage your passion for learning to come up to speed quickly. As an SME, you will be called upon frequently to present to customers and other AWS teams. To help our field teams understand how to integrate AWS storage options into customer architectures, you will also create field enablement materials for the broader SA population.

This role will require domestic travel up to 25%. to 50%
Roles and Responsibilities

Enable the AWS SA community to design cost-optimized, secure, scalable, storage architectures
Help AWS customers adopt well-architected storage solutions
Build technical trusted advisor relationships with internal and external customers
Refine best practices around storage services and solutions
Influence service roadmaps by identifying customer trends

About the team
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