Technical Curriculum Architect (AWS Cloud Curriculum)

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) Training and Certification Team is looking for developers, technical trainers or technical instructional designers who want be a part of building exciting and new courses on AWS as a Technical Curriculum Architect.

Customers are rapidly adopting Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a way to build scalable and cost-effective web and IT solutions for their businesses. To do that effectively, they need training, and not just a couple of PowerPoint slides and a long lecture. AWS is developing highly technical courses with extensive hands-on labs (ILT), e-learning courses that can be accessed 24x7, and self-paced labs that get customers deep into AWS technologies. You'll get to teach and play at the same time!

The qualified candidate will have excellent writing skills, a healthy technical knowledge of IT domains and the ability to translate technical content into easy-to-understand training. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have training, instructional design or technical documentation experience. Above all, you will have a passion for learning.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Dive deep into AWS technologies, such as Big Data, Web Applications, Security, Networking, High Performance Computing, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Applications, Migration Strategies or other solutions areas to understand the services and develop effective training for our customers.
• Work with audience representatives to understand training needs and collaborate with Subject Matter Experts across AWS (including Developers, Support Engineers, Professional Services, and Solutions Architects) to build technically accurate training that meets the learning objectives.
• Utilize our automated lab and courseware publishing process built on AWS services.
• Build relationships with AWS service teams to understand roadmaps and plan for content updates or new training offerings.
• Respond to changes in products/features by revising content at the pace of innovation.
• Facilitate requirements gathering meetings with curriculum stakeholders to define the appropriate learning objectives, modalities and expectations.
• Earn Trust – Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams.

** This position may be located in an area other than Seattle, but candidates must be based near an AWS office location (Arlington, Atlanta, Austin, Ballston, Boston, Chicago, Cupertino, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, East Palo Alto, Herndon, Houston, Irvine, Minneapolis, New York City, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Tempe, Sunnyvale, Santa Monica)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge and/or hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure services
• Current AWS Certification (Associate or Professional level).
• Hands on experience as a software delivery engineer, manager, system development engineer or developer support engineer
• 3+ years hands on experience working with microservice architectures
• 3+ years hands on experience deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters and workloads within the cluster
•3+ years design/implementation/deployment experience of advanced compute solutions
•3+ years experience in one or more of the following areas: Serverless and Container architecture, design or development
•Experience with deployment and operations of workloads on AWS using EC2 Spot, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Kubernetes or others
•Demonstrated working knowledge of software development methodologies
• Professional experience building systems on Amazon Web Services.
• Experience creating/working with cloud formation templates is a plus.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Technical degree (e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics) or relevant work experience in programming, systems architecture or systems administration.
• Ability to write and present ideas in a crisp, clear and concise manner.
• Ability to write technical documentations using narratives, charts, graphs and code examples.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• Some travel required, primarily for internal meetings and event support (10-25%).
• Experience designing, developing, and delivering instructional materials for technical content.
• A demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders.
• A demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.