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Amazon AWS Technical Account Manager (TAM), ES - NZ in Auckland, New Zealand
Description
Join AWS as we invest NZ$7.5 billion in New Zealand over the next 15 years. As an AWS Technical Consultant (Technical Account Manager) you will provide consultative architectural and operational guidance to New Zealand's Independent Software Vendor (ISV) customers to help them achieve the greatest value from AWS.
Key job responsibilities
You’ll 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, you’ll 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, you'll proactively find opportunities for customers to gain additional value from AWS
Provide detailed reviews of service disruptions, metrics, detailed prelaunch planning
Being part of a wider Enterprise Support team you’ll provide post-sales, consultative expertise
Solve a variety of problems across different customers as they migrate their workloads to the cloud
Uplift customer capabilities by running workshops, brown bag sessions, etc.
As we continue to rapidly expand in NZ, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to develop your technical, consulting and leadership skills. You’ll work with talented cloud technologists whilst expanding your knowledge of AWS products. You’ll also have the chance to receive mentorship and gain AWS certifications.
A day in the life
As a trusted advisor you’ll have a direct impact in helping our customers gain the most value from cloud technology. You’ll craft and execute strategies to drive our customers’ adoption and use of AWS services.
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. You’ll provide advice on architecture, support strategy, project, and launch planning as well as ongoing operational issues. Watch a short video about life as a Technical Account Manager team here https://bit.ly/2AivWrM.
About the team
At Amazon Web Services, we don't mind being called "peculiar." We have our own way of doing things. We're obsessed with customers, we see beauty in simplifying the complex, and we're comfortable with being misunderstood. That might sound unorthodox, but our unusual approach and our culture - focused on removing obstacles so builders can build - are part of why our people enjoy working in AWS.
We are a company of builders who bring varying backgrounds, ideas, and points of view to inventing on behalf of our customers. Our diverse perspectives come from many sources including gender, race, age, national origin, sexual orientation, culture, education, and professional and life experience. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and always look for ways to scale our impact as we grow.
We’re passionate about supporting the needs of our people and their family members. Benefits include Medical Cover, Employee Assistance Programs and Global Mobility opportunities.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Auckland, NZL
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of technical engineering experience
Experience with operational parameters and troubleshooting for two (2) of the following: compute/storage/networking/CDN/databases/DevOps/big data and analytics/security/applications development in a distributed systems environment
Bachelor's degree
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
Experience in internal enterprise or external customer-facing environment as a technical lead