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# Sr. Compute Solutions Architect, Amazon EC2 Core

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $153,600.0 - $207,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, C++ (Programming Language), Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Ruby, Software Engineering, SQL Server Analysis Services, Rust (Programming Language), Software Troubleshooting, Code Restructuring, Golang
- **Published:** July 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/27838826/Sr-Compute-Solutions-Architect-Amazon-Ec2-Core-California-Santa-Clara-7375

## About the Role

7+ years of in design/implementation/operations/consulting with distributed applications experience

 - Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
 - Proficiency with debugging and troubleshooting application's developed in Java, Ruby, Python, C/C++, Go, or Rust language(s) and frameworks.
 - Experience deploying and running containers at scale including orchestration technologies like EKS, ECS and Karpenter
 - Breadth of expertise deploying multi-az and multi-region applications on a public cloud provider., Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
 - Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
 - AWS certification, such as, AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification, or Associate's degree or above

## Description

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA!

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 #OneTeam.

The Amazon EC2 Solutions Architecture team was created to make sure customers can deploy the most scalable, and most performant Compute architectures possible. You'll play an important role as an advocate with our service teams to make sure we are building the right products., The AWS Compute team was created to make sure customers can deploy the best, most scalable, and most performant architectures possible. You'll play an important role as an advocate with our service teams to make sure we are building the right products. The team is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect who will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for our supporting customers across the wide range of EC2 instances. As a Compute Solution Architect (SA), you will work with customers globally, partner closely with the engineering, business development, and technical field teams to drive the adoption of Amazon EC2 Compute resources. The EC2 Compute SA will develop white papers, blogs, reference architectures, and presentations to enable customers and partners to understand and leverage the value of EC2. The EC2 Compute SA will also help drive enablement initiatives to continually develop the best technical field teams in the industry., Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.

 - Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers' largest and most critical business challenges.
 - Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.
 - Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.
 - Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.


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