Associate Solution Architect Graduate Program 2022 (Dec 2019)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking recent graduates, early career professionals, and advanced career professionals with limited technical experience interested in jump-starting a career as an Associate Solution Architect and participating in the AWS Tech U program to advance their technical and professional skills. In this role, you will acquire highly sought-after skills and experiences to support you in accelerating your career at AWS. In your first 12 months, you will have the opportunity to learn, train, and grow into an Associate Solution Architect. You will work with top AWS subject matter experts to develop critical skills needed to help customers solve business problems using AWS Cloud.

Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.

Opportunity

As an Associate Solutions Architect Graduate, you will receive deep-dive training in modern infrastructure design and management. Training opportunities will include comprehensive training programs and multi-day classroom courses, with opportunities to achieve industry-respected certifications. Throughout the placement, you will be exposed to relevant real-world challenges of different organizations.
This is a unique opportunity for driven, self-starters to play a key role in a fast-growing business, and to deliver significant value to AWS customers of all sizes from nimble startups to global brands. The skills and experiences you gain will be highly sought after throughout the industry and give you the opportunity to lay the foundations for a future-proof career.

If successful, you will design, evaluate and communicate reference technical solutions in partnership with veteran AWS Solutions Architects. The ability to demonstrate measurable business value against the latest technology best practices and the ability to reason about both high- and low-levels of architectural solutions is essential for a future career in IT.

About AWS Tech U

AWS Tech U is an accelerated career development program for recent graduates and early career professionals entering technical roles to advance their skills and help customers design flexible and resilient cloud-based solutions. The 12-month onboarding residency program includes a six-month academic curriculum followed by six months of on-the-job-training in the field. While in AWS Tech U, you will learn key technical and professional skills from top AWS subject matter experts that you can then use across your career working with AWS's customers.

You may be required to relocate to one of the AWS Tech U training sites to complete the academic portion of the program and to perform the on-the-job training. AWS will provide relocation assistance if needed for both in-person academic and on-the-job training.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Harmony

Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. It isn't about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it's about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment AND WE encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

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Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related science/technical fields, equivalent training, certifications, and/or experience
• Experience with one of the following programming languages: , Python, Ruby, Node.js, C#, or C++
• Experience with two or more of the following Networking fundamentals, Security, Storage or Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL), Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows)
• Full working rights for/ Australian or New Zealand Citizen or Permanent Resident

Preferred Qualifications

• Good communication skills and ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions to both large and small audiences
• Experience implementing a cloud-based technology solution in a school project or while working for a company
• Experience with one or more of the following domains: systems administration (Linux/Window), network administration (DNS, IPsec, BGP, VPN, Load Balancing), or programming (Node.JS, Ruby, C#, Python, or PHP)
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

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