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“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 & Responsibilities

  • We expect you to manage the execution/delivery of your projects, such as new game titles, migration, and game development autonomously and solve complex problems with a business perspective.
  • We expect you to identify real needs and propose and develop the most suitable solution, as well as the requirements presented by our customers. You are sometimes required to lead customers technically.
  • We expect you to get a deep understanding of architecture best practices for the AWS platform and the gaming industry, and learn more about security, performance, scalability, availability, operability, and cost requirements Take into account and guide you on how to build your application on AWS.
  • We expect you to be able to understand the AWS platform and architectural best practices deeply. Using this knowledge, we expect you to guide our customers on how to architect their applications in the cloud, taking into account a variety of requirements, such as security, performance, scalability, availability, operability, and cost.
  • We expect you to develop new reusable materials such as white papers, demos (including sample code), and other content to develop and disseminate best practices that impact the gaming 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) and large scale events(Game events, AWS hosted events)
  • We expect you to provide business and technical advice to encourage leadership members as CxO, producer/director, to make their decisions.
  • We expect you to work with stakeholders in AWS to reflect customer's voices with a deep understanding of their use cases.
  • We expect you to contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by hiring, coaching, and mentoring others.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field
  • 7+ years of working knowledge and experiences in online game, web services to support servers, databases, analytics, and bigdata.
  • Working knowledge of cloud
  • Ability to speak, read, and write in Japanese and English
  • Presentation and communication skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives such as CxO, Producer/Director, IT Management, and developers
  • Passion for technology and for learning

The Following Qualifications Are Desired But Not Required

  • AWS certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Professional)
  • Working knowledge of cloud native architectures
  • Experience working in back-end development or technical support of online games (PHP, C++, Ruby, etc...)
  • Experience in log analysis for gaming services
  • Experience with docker in production system
  • Experience with Game development platform (Unreal Engine 4, Unity, or Lumberyard)
  • Experience working within a technical pre-sales position.
  • Experience working in project management