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$62.25 - $81.75/hr
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$62.25 - $81.75/hr
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Atlanta, GA · On-site
$62.25 - $81.75/hr
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$50.75 - $69.50/hr
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Senior Infra and DevOps Cloud Engineer - Senior Delivery Consultant, Infrastructure Engineering S...
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$104K - $141K/yr
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AWS Cloud Engineer
Atlanta, GA · Remote
$53.50 - $71.75/hr
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Atlanta, GA · Remote
$53.50 - $71.75/hr
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Atlanta, GA · On-site
$48/hr
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AWS Data Architect
Atlanta, GA · On-site +1
$130K - $165K/yr
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$18 - $20/hr
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$18 - $20/hr
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Aws Associate information
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$24.3K - $47.4K
37% of jobs
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How much do aws associate jobs pay per year?
What is an AWS Associate?
What is the difference between Aws Associate vs Aws Cloud Practitioner?
| Aspect | Aws Associate | Aws Cloud Practitioner |
|---|---|---|
| Certifications | Requires AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or similar | Requires AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner |
| Work Environment | Hands-on technical roles, cloud deployment, troubleshooting | Overview, cloud concepts, basic understanding of AWS services |
| Employer & Industry Usage | Technical teams, cloud engineers, IT departments | Entry-level, non-technical roles, sales, marketing, management |
| Search & Comparison Intent | Technical skills, certifications, job roles | Basic cloud knowledge, certification overview |
The AWS Associate certification is more technical, focusing on cloud deployment and troubleshooting, suitable for those seeking hands-on roles. The AWS Cloud Practitioner is an entry-level certification providing a broad overview of AWS services, ideal for non-technical roles or beginners. Both certifications are valuable but serve different career paths within the AWS ecosystem.
What are some common challenges faced by AWS Associates when supporting cloud infrastructure, and how can they effectively overcome them?
What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as an AWS Associate?

Deloitte rating
8.2
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Job description
Work you'll do
As an AWS AI&Data FDE, you will work side by side with senior functional and technical client team members to rapidly prototype and deliver high-impact GenAI-enabled solutions. This requires a highly motivated practitioner who moves with speed and precision, building working software, engaging confidently with senior stakeholders and engineers to bring measurable business impact from day one. Additional responsibilities include:
Client Engagement
- Embed with clients to identify business needs and translate high-value GenAI use cases into solutions.
- Partner with leaders, product owners, architects, and engineers to align priorities and delivery.
- Lead working sessions to shape solutions and drive client outcomes.
- Prototype and deliver working AI solutions using industry expertise and emerging capabilities.
- Contribute independently within an FDE pod while mentoring newer team members.
- Build AI-enabled solutions, agentic platforms, and workflows across enterprise AI platforms.
- Develop scalable AI engineering patterns, tool-use approaches, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Apply architecture decisions that balance quality, safety, latency, cost, and model risk.
- Deliver production-quality code using strong practices in testing, CI/CD, logging, versioning, and documentation.
- Design extensible functionality, support sprint sizing, and align solutions with senior team members.
- Contribute reusable assets including code, prompt libraries, runbooks, and reference implementations.
AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to build, deploy, and operate integrated/verticalized sector solutions in software, data, AI, network, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. These solutions are powered by engineering for business advantage, transforming mission-critical operations. We enable clients to stay ahead with the latest advancements by transforming engineering teams and modernizing technology & data platforms. Our delivery models are tailored to meet each client's unique requirements.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Data Science or Engineering.
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data science, or analytics engineering.
- 1+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying GenAI/LLM-powered solutions in client or production environments
- 1+ years of experience with AWS AI&Data including hands on experience with one of the following key platforms/products: Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, Strands Agents SDK, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails
- 1+ years of experience with AWS Neptune and OpenSearch
- 1+ years of experience leading project workstreams/engagements and translating business problems into AI solutions
- At least 3 of 6 certifications from the following list: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate), AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01), AWS Certified Generative AI Developer (Professional - AIP-C01), AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer (Associate - MLA-C01) or AWS Certified Data Engineer (Associate)
- 1+ years of experience building reliable, maintainable, and well-documented code
- Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud) and common platform services (storage, compute, IAM, networking)
- Demonstrated ability to work directly alongside client technical teams and program stakeholders in fast-paced, ambiguous delivery environments
- Data engineering experience with Spark, Airflow/dbt, streaming, data modeling or ML/data science background feature engineering, experimentation or model evaluation
- Experience with MLOps/LLMOps practices: evaluation frameworks, model monitoring, and prompt management
- Experience with SageMaker fine-tuning (SFT and RFT) for domain SLMs
- Experience integrating LLM solutions with enterprise systems via APIs, microservices, or event-driven architectures
- Experience operating within hybrid onshore/offshore teams
- Familiarity with security, privacy, and compliance considerations
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
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Job ID 350570