Application deadline: Sep 25, 2026

Are you passionate about helping businesses revolutionize their cloud journey through container technology? Join AWS's Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) as a Specialist Solutions Architect!

We are looking for innovative leaders to join our team of Specialist Solutions Architects. This role will have a particular focus on working with our partners, both Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Systems Integrators (SIs). You will act as a trusted advisor to these partners and help them drive success. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to help shape our services including Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, AWS Fargate, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry. You will demonstrate customer obsession, representing the voice of the customer as you work with product teams to evolve AWS services. You will also work directly with the most innovative and forward-thinking customers - leaders in their respective fields - earning trust to understand their requirements and turn them into reality. You will drive architectural best practices, building and operating advanced, scalable, reliable, and secure workloads by collaborating with customers, developing impactful content, and enabling the wider community to adopt the AWS portfolio. This includes acting as a strategic technical leader in the field to provide architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote & accelerate partner engagements worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

Work with AWS Partners to define the container components of best-in-class Go-To-Market (GTM) concepts, solutions, and initiatives.

Design, implementation, and deployment experience with advanced containerized solutions architectures.

Use data and customer anecdotes to provide feedback to product teams, influencing feature development and future product roadmaps.

Provide advanced technical knowledge through container aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.

Steward the deployment and operations of workloads on AWS using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Fargate, Kubernetes or other container services.

About the team
This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s 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 and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic qualifications

• 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience with designing and building applications using container and serverless technologies

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or 7+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience with AWS technologies

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, GA, Atlanta - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Herndon - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Bellevue - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually