COMPLETE Technical Account Manager, ES - DACH - Frankfurt

Job Description

At Amazon, our vision is to be earth’s most customer-centric company. In 2006, we launched Amazon Web Services, giving customers access to the same cloud technology we built to serve millions of shoppers on Amazon.com. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering computing power, database storage, content delivery, and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow. Millions of businesses are using AWS cloud solutions to build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability.

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. This includes a range of products including EC2, S3, DynamoDB & RDS databases, Lambda, CloudFront CDN, IoT and many more. 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.

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 pre-launch planning
- Solve a variety of problems across different customers as they migrate their workloads to the cloud
- Uplift customer capabilities by running workshops, training sessions, etc.

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.

Do you want to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption? We would love to hear from you.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Frankfurt, HE, DEU

Basic Qualifications:

- Working proficiency in German language is a must for this position.
- Ability to analyse customer business and convert their business priorities to technical projects
- Experience in a similar role as a Technical Account Manager, Consultant, Solutions Architect, Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, Cloud Architect etc.
- Cloud architecture knowledge
- Advanced knowledge in any 2 technical domains (out of: Networking, Compute, Containers, DevOps, Security, DB or others)
- Ability to clearly articulate in front various audiences with a different technical knowledge level.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications:

- Professional experience with AWS and/or other cloud offerings such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform etc.
- Previous experience as a Software Engineer, Developer, DevOps Engineer etc.
- FinOps best practices
- Understanding of DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration / Deployment, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef etc.

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