“Everything you need to create and connect amazing game”
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Solutions Architect within the Gaming Industry who is passionate about helping some of our major game customers build infrastructures and applications at scale. Our solutions architects are experienced technologists with technical breadth and depth coupled with strong interpersonal skills.
The current gaming industry is undergoing a rapid change with more games are rolling out online globally, VR/AR and machine learning technologies adding further value to game development, and the eSports trending as the modern game competition. As a solutions architect, you will work directly with some of our largest and fastest growing customers in the gaming industry to enable these innovations through continuous deployment of cloud native technology stacks and advanced cloud solutions.
Our solutions architects build architectures and provide prescriptive guidance across application architecture, networking, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, and Big data,. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions, and experience leading deep architecture discussions. You will partner with Sales, Professional Services, and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of our services.
Role and Responsibilities:
- We expect you to provide QA technical support for projects in each game company, such as new game titles, migration, and game development with Senior Solutions Architects.
- We expect you to understand the requirements provided by the customer and propose and develop the right solution.
- We expect you to leverage existing content and develop new content as needed broaden common best practices in the game industry.
- We expect you to independently develop and deliver public speaking in small events (workshop, user community events, group sessions at the customer's site).
- We expect you to work with stakeholders in AWS to reflect customer's voices with a deep understanding of their use cases.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field
- 3+ years of working knowledge and experiences in an online game, web services to support servers, databases, analytics, and biodata.
- Ability to speak, read, and write in Japanese
- Passion for technology and for learning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
The following qualifications are desired but not required:
- Working knowledge of cloud
- AWS certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate)
- Experience working in back-end development or technical support of online games (e.g., PHP, C++, Ruby)
- Experience in Log analysis for gaming services
- Experience with docker in the production system
- Experience with Game development platform (Unreal Engine 4, Unity, or Lumberyard)
- Experience working within a technical pre-sales position.
- Presentation and communication skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives such as CxO, Producer/Director, IT Management, and developers
- English fluency for both reading and writing
