WHAT DOES AN AWS DO?

Published: May 19, 2025 - The AWS designs, deploys, and manages scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS services to ensure system reliability and security. This position implements automation and monitoring tools to optimize performance and reduce operational costs. This role collaborates with development teams to support application deployment and maintain best practices for cloud architecture.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for AWS

1. AWS Admin Duties

  • Collaboration: Collaborate with Application Architects, Developers, Data Scientists and System Engineers to understand functional and non-functional requirements
  • Big Data: Support the tools and technologies that are part of the Big Data Platform
  • Workflow Monitoring: Be responsible for monitoring and executing the data engineering workflows
  • DevOps Extensions: Design and implement extensions to existing DevOps and CI/CD tools
  • Containerization: Design, implement and drive the adoption of containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Cloud Solutions: Design, implement and drive the adoption of cloud solutions (AWS)
  • Automation Innovation: Create new solutions in order to push the boundaries of automation capabilities
  • Documentation: Generate proper designs, diagrams and documentation of the implemented solutions
  • Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and coaching to other team members
  • Agile Methods: Use Agile methods (Scrum/Kanban) to organize project deliverables, to track and to report progress
  • Software Support: Support software operations, test and debug programs, both in Lab and Production environments

2. AWS Architect Details

  • Technical Leadership: Providing overall technical leadership and direction for a number of teams and individuals
  • Opportunity Identification: Identifies technical opportunities outside the immediate area of product responsibility
  • Stakeholder Management: Guides and influences technical decisions while understanding the business impact and managing relevant stakeholder relationships up to C-level
  • AWS Architecture: Delivering architecture design and implementations in AWS
  • Strategic Planning: Adept at strategic planning with understanding how to identify business needs, problems, and risks
  • Hands-on Delivery: Leading and being deeply involved in the hands-on technical delivery of products
  • Solution Architecture: Driving solution architecture and best practices by
  • Content Creation: Producing white papers and best practices guides
  • Mentoring: Mentoring other WCC employees
  • Public Engagement: Producing public-facing content such as blog posts and presentations
  • PoC Implementation: Implementing PoCs, making use of innovative technology by evaluating trending technologies
  • Trend Analysis: Constantly investigating and evaluating industry trends

3. AWS Cloud Engineer Responsibilities

  • AWS Administration: Maintain and administer the existing AWS environment
  • Best Practices: Provide expertise on best practices for creating and maintaining multi-environment AWS infrastructure
  • AWS Knowledge: Improve understanding of AWS service and product offerings, capabilities and pros/cons
  • System Monitoring: Lead efforts in implementing and maintaining consolidated System Monitoring solutions
  • Security Compliance: Support initiatives for security and compliance and DevOps operations
  • CI/CD Pipeline: Strive for continuous improvement and build a continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
  • Process Design: Design and implement development, test, release, update, and support processes
  • Automation Implementation: Encourage and implement automated processes wherever possible
  • Solution Specifications: Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions, including materials, manpower and time necessary
  • QA Partnership: Partner with QA to test application resiliency and gauge readiness for software releases

4. AWS Devops Engineer Job Summary

  • DevOps Collaboration: Work with various support, operational and project teams to represent AWS DevOps across the organization
  • Troubleshooting Automation: Troubleshooting day-to-day issues and find ways to improve processes and automate services
  • Legacy Migration: Work with teams to upgrade and move legacy applications to AWS
  • Cloud Standards: Help define Cloud standards and reference architecture
  • Cost Optimization: Research and implement cost-saving and optimization enhancements
  • Pipeline Management: Develop, manage and enhance the DevOps pipeline(s)
  • Best Practices: Establish, communicate and educate teams on DevOps best practices and guidelines
  • Automation Tools: Design, manage and maintain tools to automate operational processes
  • Security Automation: Implement and automate security controls, governance processes and compliance validation

5. AWS Solutions Architect Functions

  • Visionary Thinking: Bring big picture thinking and vision and work with others to design and develop next phase of applications and initiatives to meet fast-growing business demands
  • Product Design: Create product and technology designs to help determine future state architectural vision and modernization efforts to meet business goals and growth projections
  • Architectural Guidance: Provide architectural guidance to teams in an effort to build scalable and maintainable solutions, adhere to a technology roadmap, and minimize technical debt
  • Product Development: Participates in product development activities such as architecture, design, prototyping, implementation and review
  • Cloud Transformation: Help lead a transformation of existing products through a scalable cloud native transformation
  • Accelerated Design: Work with peers to build designs supporting accelerated paths for new products to market
  • Lean Agile: Support business and development process using Lean Architecture and Agile methodologies
  • Design Reviews: Aid product teams in design reviews to ensure the architecture is scalable and consistent with the overall architectural vision
  • DevOps Leadership: Comfortable in leading and empowering development teams with an understanding of DevOps automation and Continuous Integration