Professional Services Graduate Program, Amazon Web Services

Job Description

Batch – 2023/2022

Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Start Date: March or September, 2023

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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 Professional Services Consultant and participating in the Professional Services Graduate program to advance their technical and professional skills.

The Professional Services Graduate Program features cohort-based training followed by on-the-job-training. You will complete specialized curriculum, shadow AWS experts, and receive coaching and on-the-job training to help you succeed in your new role.

You will also prepare to take the certification exams for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and additional role-specific certifications.

The program offers the opportunity to specialize in an area of interest including:

• DevOps – build advanced computing systems that harness continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines and utilize the strengths of cloud computing to build scalable and economical systems for clients.
• Cloud Infrastructure Architect – specialize in cloud-based network performance, infrastructure provisioning, and building Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
• Application Developer – design applications that run natively in the cloud and build programs that run on any number of platforms.
• Big Data & Analytics – support our services that leverage data and produce business insights, including using Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI).
• Security Consultant – work with AWS products targeted for security professionals to establish solid security practices; the foundation for using the cloud.

Upon successful completion of the Professional Services Graduate program, participants will progress to a career as an AWS Associate Professional Services Consultant.

About AWS

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.

Key job responsibilities
As an Associate Professional Services Consultant, you will partner with customers and several AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build use of AWS within organizations.

About the team
The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that helps AWS customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries. In addition to working alongside our customers, we share our experience through tech talk webinars, White Papers, and blog posts that are available to anyone.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree related to Computer Science, Computer Engineering or science/technical fields; equivalent training, certifications, and/or experience.
• Final year student or recent graduate with 0-2 years of relevant experience
• Coding skills in one common programming language (e.g Java, C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python) OR the interest and technical ability to learn a programming language.
• Familiarity with two or more of the following: Networking fundamentals, Security, Storage or Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL), Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows)
• Fluent verbal and written English language skills to effectively communicate technical challenges and solutions

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience implementing a cloud-based technology solution (e.g. school project, 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, Java, Ruby, C#, Python, or PHP)
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Fluent proficiency in Dutch

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