Senior Networking Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Industries Customer Acceleration Team

Description Are you passionate about helping organizations achieve transformative business value through innovative networking solutions? Do you combine deep technical expertise with practical problem-solving skills to optimize how enterprises leverage cloud networking? AWS Industries is seeking a networking expert who can identify and architect solutions while supporting teams and contributing to our networking practice. As a trusted advisor to your customers, you’ll enable their success through modern networking strategies that drive business agility, innovation, and performance.

As a Senior Networking Specialist Solutions Architect, you’ll be the go-to networking expert for key customers in our portfolio. This role combines hands-on solution design with strategic thinking – you’ll deliver networking solutions that support customer objectives, provide customer insights to product teams, and contribute to best practices within the networking community. You’ll collaborate with senior stakeholders, Business Development, Professional Services, Customer Solutions Managers, Partner teams, and account teams to tackle challenging networking initiatives. Join us and experience the unique opportunity to combine the resources of a Fortune-5 company with the dynamic atmosphere of a startup, making a lasting impact on how businesses operate in the cloud.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead complex networking engagements from architectural design through implementation for key accounts
• Develop solutions for customers’ hybrid connectivity, security, and networking scalability requirements
• Create networking designs and recommendations that align with customers’ business objectives
• Contribute to thought leadership by delivering internal and customer-facing content
• Guide and support Solutions Architects on networking concepts and best practices
• Provide customer feedback to product teams to help inform networking roadmap priorities
• Contribute to reusable architectural patterns that help accelerate adoption of AWS networking technologies
• Stay current on emerging networking technologies and their applications in enterprise environments

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The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers w…