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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Solutions Architect, California Higher Education - Solutions Architecture - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $176,600.0 - $239,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Software Engineering, Web Services, Amazon Relational Database Service, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Functional Programming - **Published:** May 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b832f0e6c82272c4 ## About the Role Do you have experience in IT?, Do you like helping higher education customers implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems? Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping groups understand application architectures and integration approaches, and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success? Are you familiar with security best practices for applications, servers, and networks? Would you like to be part of a sales group, but have your opinion valued as a technical resource as part of planning and strategies?, * 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience * 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience * 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience, * Master's degree or above in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience with AWS services including S3, Redshift, Sagemaker, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, and EC2 * Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a technical role within a sales organization * Knowledge of compliance and security standards across the enterprise IT landscape * 6+ years of working cross functionally across several teams experience, or Bachelor's degree * 2+ years of data center or mission critical facilities (example: hospital, military facility, public safety facility, etc.) experience ## Description Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing business as part of the World Wide Public Sector practice. As a Solutions Architect within AWS, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services (e.g., AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS RDS, and AWS CloudFront) directly with customers and our ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers. Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects; defining implementation architectures, responding to RFPs, developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform; and being a subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services. As a Solutions Architect on our team, you will provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our customers while working with a world class sales and business development team. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community. You will gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture. Please apply if you are passionate about the following: Helping our customers to design and create cloud computing architectures Our company credo: "Work hard. Have fun. Make history." It's critical to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers. Deep-dive technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends. 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