Amazon is closely following the impacts of COVID-19. Learn more on how we are supporting our employees, candidates, customers and communities through the pandemic. Job ID: 1423494 | Amazon Web Services, Inc. DESCRIPTION Do you enjoy leading, guiding, and influencing customers and team members throughout the DevOps journey? As a Principal DevOps Architect, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the world's most complex challenges. You will apply your deep technical expertise to solve cloud-based solutions at scale. You will lead customers through transforming their business with the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that deliver end-to-end applications and infrastructure solutions. In parallel, you will be a DevOps thought-leader for AWS. You will be a strategic member of the leadership team where you drive the DevOps vision for the organization. The Principal DevOps Architect is a leader with an established record of DevOps organizational transformation and cloud adoption with enterprise level customers. A successful DevOps practitioner has technical depth across the Full DevOps Spectrum along with leading and advising C-level executives, evangelizing enterprise cloud based DevOps transformations, and pioneering the latest DevOps industry standards. As a Principal DevOps Architect, you will be expected to: . Own the quality of DevOps architecture and design. . Contribute intellectual property through patent generation. . Lead and contribute to define industry standards and AWS DevOps offerings. . Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions. . Fully and completely understand system inter-dependencies and limitations. . Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the Amazon developer community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members. . Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. . Lead technical and design discussions with Executives to help enterprises speed their adoption of new technologies and practices. . Serve as a thought leader and SME for DevOps industry trends, new and existing technology offerings, and architectural concepts. . Advise on implementing AWS best practices and provide architectural governance. Our team members work with enterprise customers locally, regionally and domestically. As such, team members will be required to travel to client locations to sell and deliver professional services as needed. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS . BS level technical degree or 15+ years of professional or military experience. . 12+ years of software development or application engineering in languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language. . 8+ years of experience as a technical advisor. . Experience with architecting and automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure. . Experience with Infrastructure as Code, using CloudFormation, Terraform, or other tools. . Experience architecting cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Code Deploy (AWS) and/or GitLab. . Architectural leadership experience with microservices and distributed applications, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless technology. . Experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS . Leader in demonstrating agility through various delivery and implementation methodologies. . Computer Science or Engineering background. . Demonstrated success as a software developer, application architect, release manager, product manager, CTO, or consultant working with various platforms. . Experience architecting, designing and developing applications on the AWS platform. . Experience designing and building applications using container and serverless technologies. . Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing and horizontal scalability. . Experience with Configuration Management platforms (eg Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible). . Experience working directly with customers, partners or third-party developers. . Participant in speaking engagements, published work, published blogs, and/or acquired patents, demonstrating industry notoriety. Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. For employees based in Colorado, this position starts at $122,300 per year. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Important FAQs for current Government employees Before proceeding, please review the following FAQs https://www.amazon.jobs/en/faqs#faqs-for-us-government-employees Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.