Senior Solutions Architect, VMware

The ASEAN Specialist team at AWS is looking for a VMware Specialist Senior Solutions Architect to work with our customers across ASEAN. If you enjoy working on advanced technologies on the cloud and have a strong background with VMware technologies, we’d like to meet you. Your work will help our ASEAN customers leverage the benefits running their workloads on AWS.

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Key job responsibilities
As a VMware Specialist SA in the ASEAN Specialist Team, you bring in the critical VMware experience that will help us address the requirements of our customer’s workloads. You will be the go-to person for providing guidance on AWS architectures and best practices for customer workloads. In this role you will be

• Architecting for running customer workloads on AWS.
• Helping customers modernise their workloads leveraging the power of AWS.
• Authoring blog posts, whitepapers etc. showcasing your thought leadership
• Representing AWS in large conferences.

A day in the life
What does the day in the life of a VMware Specialist SA look like? You will

• Collaborate with a group of domain specialists
• Work on complex problems to identify solutions for our customers.
• Work as a trusted advisor to our customers and the ASEAN leadership.
• Provide technology guidance to customers and the field teams.
• Represent AWS in large conferences and events.
• Create mechanisms that help you scale your role.
• Coach and mentor and help Amazon Hire and Develop the Best

About the team
The ASEAN Specialist Team is a team of domain experts with deep expertise and experience in their technology domains. The Specialist SA team is responsible for technology/thought leadership working across the entire lifecycle of engagement with our customers in ASEAN. They strive to be the trusted advisors for our customers and are key contributors to the technology strategy in ASEAN.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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Basic qualifications

• Strong understanding of VMware technologies like vSAN, NSX & vSphere among others
• Strong understanding of resilience features such as vSphere High Availability, vMotion, and DRS
• Understanding of VMware vRealize and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) products and techniques.
• Familiarity with infrastructure architecture- network, storage & security among others.
• Knowledge of architecting solutions on AWS.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience architecting for workloads on AWS.
• Industry/Cloud Certifications including AWS & VMware certifications
• Technology breadth- Broad understanding of key technologies such as Databases, Modern Application Architectures, Data & Analytics & Security
• Experience migrating workloads to AWS.