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DESCRIPTION:
An AWS Technical Account Manager is a trusted advisor and cloud operations architect for our Enterprise Support customers. As a trusted advisor youll have a direct impact in helping our customers gain the most value from cloud technology. Youll 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. Youll provide advice on architecture, support strategy, project, and launch planning as well as ongoing operational issues.
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS 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, hasnt followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, dont let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) 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.
Key job responsibilities
* Youll 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, youll 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, youll proactively find opportunities for customers to gain additional value from AWS
* Provide detailed reviews of service disruptions, monthly & quarterly 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, immersion days, etc.
A day in the life
See what the team say about their roles:
https://emea-resources.awscloud.com/write-your-own-story/meet-daniel-account-manager-start-ups
https://emea-resources.awscloud.com/write-your-own-story/meet-kejia-technical-account-manager
https://emea-resources.awscloud.com/write-your-own-story/meet-nataliya-technical-account-manager
About the team
As we continue to rapidly expand in EMEA, youll have plenty of opportunities to develop your technical, consulting and leadership skills. Youll work with talented cloud technologists whilst expanding your knowledge of AWS products. Youll 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.
Culture
Were passionate about supporting the needs of our people and their family members. Benefits include Healthcare, Employee Assistance Programs and Global Mobility opportunities.
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 2 or more 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Professional experience with cloud offerings such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform etc.