Many industries and businesses were forced to shut down during the coronavirus pandemic due to social distancing measures, and many that weren’t shut down simply saw decrease demand for their goods and services. On the flip side, other businesses were forced to ramp up due to increases demand.
Amazon was one of those business, and the company brought on 175,000 workers during the pandemic so far in order to meet demands of people across the country. The organization is offering permanent roles to 70% of those new U.S. workers, Reuters reported on May 28.
Find out how you can get hired at the eCommerce giant now. Ladders put together a list of 30 jobs at Amazon and explained how you can get hired there right now using data from its continuously updated database of high-paying jobs.
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1. Software Development Engineer
If you are looking to make an impact, this is the team for you. You will not only have the satisfaction of seeing your work directly on the Amazon website where it will be viewed by tens of millions of customers and drive quantifiable revenue impact, but will also have the opportunity to help shape our engineering and product roadmaps. This team is not bound by legacy systems, but instead has a broad mandate to experiment, which gives it great flexibility as it designs and develops services. You will have an opportunity to contribute across the full stack and even dabble in some novel Machine Learning opportunities. Most importantly, you will have an opportunity to grow and broaden your technical skills as you work in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation.
2. Healthcare & Life Sciences Operations Manager
As Industry Operations Manager for the Enterprise & Industry Verticals Business Development team within AWS, you will have the exciting opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mindshare and broaden AWS’ use in an industry ecosystem. Your responsibilities will include designing and executing mechanisms to support and drive industry scale for AWS. You will work closely with the Industry Vertical global leadership team, regional Industry business development teams across the globe, and stakeholders in various functions across AWS. You must be comfortable working with cross functional, global teams in dynamic organizations as many of the mechanisms you drive will have interdependencies with other teams within AWS.
The right candidate has been successful in an operations function for a 100+ person global organization, possesses strong analytical skills, exceptional writing and communications skills, strong project and program management capabilities and a proven track record of simultaneously driving multiple priorities, a customer-focused approach, affinity for fast paced entrepreneurial environment, has a strong sense of ownership, and is detail oriented.
3. Senior Product Manager – Technical
As a Senior Product Manager – Technical, you will be working with a unique team developing exciting new “zero to one” products for consumers in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
The successful candidate for this position will think and act both strategically and tactically: from the ideation and creation of highly innovative plans and evaluation of strategic priorities, to the attention to detail necessary to create a bar-raising product. They will demonstrate a comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, with the ability to own and drive progress for critical areas of our product and business.
4. Senior Project Manager of Delivery Service Partners and Trust & Safety
Amazon is seeking an exceptional Sr. Program Manager who will be part of a group that’s defining and building fleet capabilities supporting Amazon’s current and future initiatives. Amazon is building a world class last mile operation, significantly complimented by Delivery Service Partners (DSP). Amazon works directly with DSPs to make deliveries to its customers. As a DSP, an entrepreneur can now be her/his own boss managing a fleet of up to 40 Amazon branded vans delivering Amazon packages. To be successful, a DSP will hire and develop a team of high-performing drivers. The Sr. Program manager will work closely with these DSPs and other partners team to build new processes for improving the overall customer & DSP experiences. Check out the job posting for a full list of responsibilities.
5. Software Development Engineer on the Tax Technology team
It’s Day 1 in Tax Technology, and Amazon is at the beginning of building out an entire suite of global tax solutions. The Tax technology team is in the early phases of design and development and this is your chance to shape a brand new product from the start.
In this role you will:
- Design and build services to make customer lives better and will be part of a new “AWS like” technology platform for Tax
- Work through all phases of the project lifecycle, including reviewing requirements, designing services that lay foundation for the new technology platform, building new interfaces and also integrate with existing architectures, developing and testing code, and delivering seamless implementations for Global Tax customers
- Evaluate and utilize AWS technologies where appropriate, such as EC2, RDS/DynamoDB/RedShift, SWF, S3 and QuickSight to design and build scalable backend web services and customer facing APIs
- Design and code technical solutions in tools such as Java, Angular JS, and/or SQL Server to deliver value to tax customers
- Contribute to a suite of tools that will be hosted on the AWS cloud infrastructure
- Build dashboard and visualization services
- Build iteratively using agile methodologies
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6. Program Manager on the Quantum Hardware team
The ideal candidate for the Program Manager position on the Quantum Hardware team thinks long term, drives multiple initiatives, communicates appropriately and influences customers and suppliers at all levels.
This professional will be collaborative, but also work with significant autonomy. To be successful in this role you will be highly analytical; think strategically and globally; exhibit curiosity and learning drive; have a sense of urgency to meet customer timelines, succeed in a fast-paced environment; and have a high level of customer focus and business judgement. It will be critical to embrace and model Amazon’s Leadership Principles and have an entrepreneurial spirit.
7. Media & Entertainment Operations Manager
As Industry Operations Manager for the Enterprise & Industry Verticals Business Development team within AWS, you will have the exciting opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mindshare and broaden AWS’ use in an industry ecosystem.
Responsibilities in this role will include designing and executing mechanisms to support and drive industry scale for AWS. You will work closely with the Industry Vertical global leadership team, regional Industry business development teams across the globe, and stakeholders in various functions across AWS. You must be comfortable working with cross functional, global teams in dynamic organizations as many of the mechanisms you drive will have interdependencies with other teams within AWS.
8. Quantum Research Scientist in Quantum Measurement
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, CA, is looking to hire a Research Scientist with general expertise in experimental quantum physics as part of the Test and Measurement Group within the Quantum Hardware Team. Successful candidates must not only have a strong background in experimental techniques, but also a solid theoretical knowledge of quantum optics, open quantum systems, and quantum measurement. Candidates must also have superior data analysis, problem solving, and communication skills. Working effectively within a team environment is essential.
9. Quantum Research Scientist in Device Fabrication and Characterization
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, CA, is looking to hire a Quantum Research Scientist in the Device Fabrication group. You will join a multi-disciplinary team of theoretical and experimental physicists, materials scientists, and hardware and software engineers working at the forefront of quantum computing. You should have a deep and broad knowledge of device fabrication and characterization techniques.
Candidates with a track record of original scientific contributions will be preferred. Amazon is looking for candidates with strong engineering principles, resourcefulness, superior problem solving, and excellent communication skills. Working effectively within a team environment is essential. As a research scientist you will be expected to work on new ideas and stay abreast of the field of experimental quantum computation.
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, CA, is looking to hire a Hardware Development Engineer with general expertise in the design, construction, and testing of complex experimental apparatus. Candidates must have a strong background in the mechanical design of precision measurement apparatus operating within a cryogenic environment, and must have superior data analysis, problem solving, communication, and management skills. Working effectively within a team environment is critical.
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11. Academic Medical Center Account Manager
Academic Medical Centers are under pressure to reduce costs, innovate at scale and improve operational performance, and they are looking to the Cloud to modernize their operations. AWS is looking for an account manager who understands business trends impacting the industry and is passionate and capable of driving growth across R1 University Healthcare in the Texas Area-US Territory for AWS.
Your responsibilities will include engaging with large strategic Schools of Medicine, the Research Community and health system customers and their existing AWS account teams to qualify and pursue sales opportunities. You will engage with the business development teams, solutions architects, partner and professional services organizations to drive large opportunities to closure.
12. AWS Sales Account Manager in Higher Education
Amazon Web Services is expanding in the U.S. Public Sector market, and the Education team within Amazon offers a creative, fast paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you’ll be at the center of Amazon innovation for students, administrators, researchers, and faculty.
Amazon is looking for an experienced Enterprise Sales Representative to focus on Research 1 Higher Education institutions in Texas. The ideal candidate has sales experience in this vertical with a terrific reputation for overachieving quota while focusing on the customer. This professional should also be a self-starter who is prepared to develop and execute against a territory coverage plan and consistently deliver on quarterly revenue targets. The ideal candidate will possess both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive an engagement at the CXO level as well as with software developers and IT architects. The Enterprise Sales Representative will be an exceptionally strong and creative thinker who thrives in a team environment and embraces all aspects of selling. This professional will must be able to work in fast-paced, dynamic environment and have very strong verbal and written communication skills.
AWS is seeking a world class sales professional to manage the company’s global customer relationship.
The Global Account Manager will be responsible for providing global business leadership and management of this global account. You will build and maintain key relationships, develop and manage opportunities, monitor deployment projects and engage virtual resources. You will define a CXO relationship strategy within the account, including engaging with AWS senior leadership team for executive sponsorships, coordinating executive business reviews, and maintaining customer satisfaction.
14. Senior Solutions Architect in Healthcare
AWS is looking for a Solutions Architect to help accelerate its growing Health Care business by working with Academic Medical Centers. Your focus will be helping customers perform medical research, run hospital systems, and support schools of medicine on the AWS cloud. You will do this by continually learning about the trends of the healthcare industry, the advancements of the IT industry, and the expanding landscape of AWS Services. You will use this knowledge to become a trusted advisor to your customers and to other Solutions Architects within AWS on healthcare solutions. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s technical teams, and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere. By helping your customers in academic medicine reach the next level using cloud computing you will be able to meaningfully and positively impact world health.\
As a Solutions Architect within AWS, you will use your deep technical knowledge to design and communicate solutions using Amazon’s broad portfolio of services (e.g., machine learning, data analytics, high performance computing) directly with healthcare-focused customers and our ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers. You will use your healthcare IT expertise to help customers migrate healthcare data to the cloud, perform big data analytics, design enterprise application solutions, and perform medical research. Staying on the forefront of innovation will also mean learning how to apply AI/ML to help with academic medicine’s biggest opportunities to change patient health outcomes.
The Senior IoT Data Architect will be an advisor to customers and will work with AWS sales, business development, solution architects, and the IoT service team to drive IoT data and analytics related adoption and revenue. This role will also include showcasing service such as AWS IoT Analytics, AWS IoT Events, AWS IoT SiteWise, Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Timestream, Amazon Athena, Amazon QuickSight.
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16. Senior Database Consultant
The Senior Database Consultant will be responsible for the following:
- Employ customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, standard methodologies, project management and risk mitigation.
- Work closely with AWS Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams to help ensure the success of project consulting engagements with customer.
- Work directly with customers’ technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on the understood requirements.
- Think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment.
- Analyze on-premises database environments such as Oracle, SQL Server, or other Commercial DB Engines to Open Source Engines like Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL or RedShift, DynamoDB.
- Work with customers to migrate their database environments to AWS. This may include, but is not limited to Re-Host database platform on AWS, Upgrade/Optimize for AWS, Re-Factor to open source database platform on AWS.
- Consult for optimal design of database environments, analyzing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance.
- Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems.
17. Software Development Engineer II
The software development engineer II will design, develop, implement, test, and document embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems and services. The professional will also:
- Translate functional requirements into robust, efficient, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture.
- Participate in the full development cycle, end-to-end, from design, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
- Produce comprehensive, usable software documentation.
- Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products and tools.
- Mentor junior development engineers.
Amazon Web Services is looking for highly talented and technical consultants to help accelerate its growing Professional Services business. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.
In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.
This professional will enjoy working with Intelligence Community customers. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of Intelligence Community customers and have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions.
The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems or support engineer. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.
This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess an active Top Secret security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and satisfy other security related requirements.
The Amazon Web Services Professional Services team is looking for Customer Practice Managers (CPM) who can lead and/or support significant customer programs during the solution and pursuit stages, develop a long-term Professional Services strategy and execute that strategy with those customers.
The CPM is a trusted advisor for customers and the role includes all aspects of business development, deal structuring, deal support and closure in those accounts.
AWS Ground Station is a fully managed global Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) that allows customers easy and cost-effective satellite control, ingest and process satellite data, and innovate with other AWS Services. It provides satellite customers ground station services with no ground station infrastructure commitments, usage-based per-minute pricing, self-service scheduling, and a global network of ground stations in close proximity to AWS Regions so customers can access AWS services, infrastructure and global network within milliseconds of downlinking data from their satellite.
In this position, you will play a pivotal role in defining product requirements and go-to-market strategies, and you will tirelessly champion the needs of AWS Ground Station customers. Given the breadth of the service we are building, this role will require coordination across many internal and external teams and will be visible at the highest levels of the company. You will work with our customers, partners, software and hardware vendors, and operational stakeholders to prioritize roadmap features and spearhead the definition of new capabilities through expertly crafted business requirements documents.
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21. Senior Solutions Architect in Enterprise Migrations
Amazon Web Services is hiring a Senior Migration Solutions Architect to partner with customers and develop solutions to accelerate their cloud migration journey. The Migration Solutions Architect works with high-value enterprises, helping them to effectively lead their migration assessment readiness and strategy. At the onset of a large migration engagement, AWS Migration Solutions Architects focus on understanding customer business drivers as well as the existing datacenter architecture to deliver a Cloud readiness assessment to the customer. Migration Solution architects then use these inputs to design reliable and scalable cloud infrastructure foundations, as well as help build the overall migration plan.
The Migration Solutions Architect collaborates with Business Development, Professional Services, and the Partner teams to ensure successful management of customer progression through programs like the Migration Acceleration Program. The Migration Solution Architect must have the ability to showcase hands-on technical credibility with technical leaders, and acts as a mentor to other Solution architects on migration best practices.
22. Principal Data Architect in Data Warehousing & MPP
The Principal Data Architect will specifically focus on large scale data warehousing and data warehouse modernization. The role is to help customers and partners to eliminate technical and economic constraints from their legacy data warehouses and help them to leverage their data to develop business insights.
The consultants will develop, deliver and implement data warehouse projects that help customers leverage their data to develop business insights. These professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions such as data warehousing, business intelligence and advanced analytics.
23. Enterprise Account Engineer III
Design, develop and support global and enterprise companies running cloud-based mission-critical applications, systems, services and features. Work directly with engineering teams and leading technologists. Utilize transformational technologies to ensure flawless customer experience. Manage Enterprise accounts, oversee support cases, and assist customers regarding strategy, project planning, launch, and ongoing operations. Complete analysis and present periodic reviews of operational performance to customer. Provide detailed reviews of service disruptions, metrics, and detailed prelaunch planning. Recommend new offerings for company architecture and provide proactive advice through all phases of the implementation life cycle. Advocate for customer requirements. Participate in customer requested meetings. Utilize all key customer resolution tools across all service groups to facilitate rapid resolution of concerns.
Amazon Advertising is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for brand advertisers, agencies, authors, and entrepreneurs. The ad solutions—including sponsored, display, video, and custom ads—leverage Amazon’s innovations and insights to find, attract, and engage intended audiences throughout their daily journeys. With a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service, managed service, and programmatic ad buying, these solutions help businesses build brand awareness, increase product sales, and more.
This is an opportunity to sell personalization technologies and drive sales across multiple platforms to mid-to-large brand and performance advertisers. There are also opportunities to grow and retain revenue from existing advertisers. This could be the role for you if you have a consultative selling style, yield from media and or marketing world and are ready to deliver strategic advertising solutions to your clients.
25. Cloud Financial Management Specialist
As Cloud Financial Management Specialist, you will have the opportunity to engage with some of the largest customers in the world to help transform the way they purchase, manage, and optimize IT services. You will engage with customers’ Enterprise IT, Operations, and Finance teams to implement best practices for cloud adoption and cost savings. This will include generating and providing recommendations on how customers can optimize their usage of AWS, services not considered, working to reengineer internal people and processes, and working with partners to ensure ongoing success.
This professional will be experienced at working with large data sets, have a familiarity of IT transformation within large organizations, and working directly within the executive suite. This professional will also have superb communication and customer-relationship skills, outstanding analytic insight, and be a passionate advocate for AWS customers to other internal parties.
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26. Senior Database Consultant
As a Senior Database Consultant for Amazon, you will collaborate with customers and partners on key engagements and will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects in order to migrate Applications from Oracle/SQL*Server databases to Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL or other Open Source platforms.
The professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions, such as high volume mission critical OLTP/OLAP environments, batch data processing, designing and deploying future state petabyte-scale data warehouse service and building and/or designing reference configurations to enable customers and influence AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB and Redshift adoption. View the job posting for a full list of job responsibilities.
27. Data Scientist in Nationwide Opportunities
“At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are helping large enterprises build ML models on the AWS Cloud,” the job description reads. “We are applying predictive technology to large volumes of data and against a wide spectrum of problems. AWS Professional Services works together with AWS customers to address their business needs using AI solutions.”
AWS Professional Services is a unique consulting team that prides itself on being customer-obsessed and highly focused on the AI enablement of customers.
“If you have experience with AI, including building ML models, we’d like to have you join our team,” the job description reads. “You will get to work with an innovative company, with great teammates, and have a lot of fun helping our customers. A successful candidate will be a person who enjoys diving deep into data, doing analysis, discovering root causes, and designing long-term solutions.”
This is a customer-facing role and you will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services as needed.
28. Senior Database Migration Modernization Consultant
The Senior Database Migration Modernization Consultant will collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements and will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects in order to migrate Applications from Oracle/SQL*Server databases to Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL or other Open Source platforms.
Our professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions such as high volume mission critical OLTP/OLAP environments, batch data processing, designing and deploying future state petabyte-scale data warehouse service and building and/or designing reference configurations to enable our customers and influence AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB and Redshift adoption.
29. Senior Cloud Migration Consultant in Global Telecommunications Practice
Amazon is searching for a Senior Consultant for Telecom Migration to join the AWS Global Telecom Practice in the Professional Services (ProServe) organization. This Senior Consultant will engage with telecom customers around the globe and provide deep business and technical expertise to help customers and partners design, architect, and implement large migration and modernization programs.
The ideal candidate for this position is outcome-driven and customer-obsessed professionals with a balance of deep technical skills and business expertise.
30. AWS Enterprise Service Manager in Global Industrial / High Tech Vertical
The Amazon Web Services Professional Services team is looking for Enterprise Service Managers (ESM) that can manage the working relationship with global organizations, develop a long term Professional Services strategy and execute that strategy within those accounts.
The ESM is a trusted advisor for the organization’s largest and most committed customers. The role includes all aspects of Go-To-Market and delivery execution of Professional Services and Consulting for the accounts.
The AWS Professional Services team collaborates across the entire AWS organization and partner ecosystem to propose and deliver the right solution to help customers in their transformation and innovation initiatives.
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