Professional Services Cloud Consultant Intern NatSec- ADC

Note: This internship is full-time (40 hours/week) for 12 consecutive weeks, starting May 2024. Applicants should have at a minimum one quarter/semester remaining after their internship concludes. By applying to this position, your application will be considered for: Herndon, VA.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and be able to obtain/maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph at the conclusion of the internship.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leader in Cloud Computing, is seeking interns to join our AWS Professional Services Internship program. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in a fast-growing business and to deliver value to AWS customers of all sizes from startups to global brands. The skills and experiences you gain will be highly sought after throughout the industry and give you the opportunity for the career of a lifetime.

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.

As a Professional Services intern, you will gain hands-on experience in cloud computing, develop business acumen, and learn about Amazon’s peculiar culture. You will work on projects, have the opportunity to obtain the AWS certifications, and attend professional development events. This internship leads to a full time role that includes at the minimum 25% travel.

Upon successful completion of the internship program, selected interns will receive a full-time offer to join the Professional Services and go into our AWS Technical training program. This program is an accelerated career development program for recent graduates and early career professionals entering technical roles to advance their skills and help customers design flexible and resilient cloud-based solutions. While in this program, you will learn key technical and professional skills from top AWS subject matter experts that you can use in your career working with AWS’s customers.

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

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).

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 server less 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. The portfolio of services covers EMR (Hadoop), DynamoDB (NoSQL), MongoDB, and Apache Cassandra.

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. Within AWS, security is job zero, and we believe that solid security practices are the foundation for using the Cloud. We are looking for candidates who are passionate about working with products targeted for security professionals

If this sounds exciting to you - come build the future with us!

Key job responsibilities
· Build solutions that demonstrate technical breadth and practical knowledge of applicable AWS services
· Present technical content to internal and external audiences and collaborate across diverse stakeholder groups to deliver business value for Customers.
· Contribute to workload discovery, requirements gathering, and preparation of engagement-related presentations.


About the team
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members in an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. P