Associate Professional Services Consultant - Early Career Program
This role starts in September 2025.
About the Role
We are seeking recent graduates, early career professionals, and advanced career professionals with limited technical experience to join our team as an Associate Professional Services Consultant.
You will have the opportunity to experiment with innovative technologies, including Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, and Internet of Things, and help educate, train, design, and build enterprise cloud computing solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers.
Program Overview
The successful hires will be put through the Professional Services Consultant Program or the Tech U program depending on your specialization. These accelerated workforce development programs are focused on helping recent graduates and early career professionals build technical and professional skills to jump-start their careers at Amazon Web Services.
The program features cohort-based training followed by on-the-job training, where you will complete specialized curriculum, shadow AWS experts, and receive coaching and on-the-job training to help you succeed in your new role.
Certifications
Residents will also prepare to take the certification exams for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. During the program's On-the-Job training phase, you will prepare for additional certifications that align to your role.
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.
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 widespread use of AWS within organizations.
Specialization Options
* DevOps Specialist: A leader in building 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: An expert in cloud-based networking and system rollouts. CIAs specialize in network performance, infrastructure provisioning, and building Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
* Application Developer: AppDev resources are specialists in designing applications that run natively in the cloud. They are experts in building programs that run on any number of platforms including virtualized instances, containers, or serverless architecture.
* Data & Analytics: Data & Analytics role supports our services that leverage data and produce business insights, which may include using Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI). Helping our customers use and integrate Big Data services in what is arguably our industry's most exciting space.
* Security Consultant: Supports our services that have a focus on enabling security specialists using AWS Services including Identity Access Management (IAM), GuardDuty, Shield, Key Management Service (KMS), CloudTrail, CloudHSM, Inspector etc.
About AWS
At Amazon Web Services, we value diversity and believe that a diverse workforce is essential to our success. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
Amazon Web Services is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Minimum Requirements
* A degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Mathematics / Technology / Related science/technical field OR equivalent training, certifications, and/or experience (0-2 years).
* Experience with one of the programming languages like Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, C#, or C++ OR the interest and technical ability to learn a programming language.
* Fluent in English and French.
* Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
* Experience with Networking fundamentals including Security, Storage or Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL), Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows).
* Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies; Experience with infrastructure as code, ops automation, and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible.
* Knowledge of the primary AWS services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53, and S3.
* Experience around implementing cloud-based technology solutions - in a school project or while working for a company.