Associate AWS Training Architect
The Associate AWS Training Architect role
EMPOWER | INSPIRE | EDUCATE
Our Training Architects are cloud experts who love sharing their knowledge of and passion for cloud computing with others. They are part technical SME, part coach and are fueled by a love of learning about the latest cloud technologies. As an Associate Training Architect at A Cloud Guru, your primary focus will be to create training tools in a variety of content mediums that will provide a path of education to our ever-growing student base. These courses and materials are made available online through our virtual training portal. The courses include (but are not limited to) video lessons, live lab environments, quizzes, study guides. Assuring student’s success is of the utmost importance at A Cloud Guru and you will play a huge part in that!
Hello, we're A Cloud Guru
Our friends call us ACG.
A Cloud Guru was built by engineers for everyone, everywhere. Here, you’ll have the freedom to follow your curiosity. We’re not afraid to just try, because when you’re working with cutting edge technologies, experimentation and trying out new ideas have to be encouraged and celebrated. Everyone on our team genuinely cares about our students, the quality of their education, and what that can mean for their careers and their lives.
Our engineers are building the world’s largest (and most awesome) cloud learning platform. Why? Our mission is to teach the world to cloud. Our fun, practical courses have helped over 1.5 million people learn to cloud, and we’re just getting started.
What makes the Content Team awesome...
Who says learning something technical has to be a snooze? With a human touch, the world’s leading cloud gurus, and a few LEGO bricks, we’re giving people the skills they need to move up in their careers and change their lives… and having a bit of fun along the way.
Based on the latest learning techniques and infused with humor, our content is more than meets the eye, transforming novices into gurus faster than robots turn into semi trucks. To get our students on top of the cloud, we have to get there ourselves. We dedicate time each week to continued learning – from getting certs to brushing up on presentation skills.
We're given the freedom to try things out, and set our own agenda, and leave our mark on the company. - Nick, Lead Educational Design Architect
As an Associate Training Architect at ACG, you’ll get to:
- Design and maintain engaging and creative course materials that include real-world, hands-on and scenario-driven content designed to prepare our students to meet their educational and professional goals.
- Own outcomes through consistently meeting or exceeding course rating OKRs set out by management, and optimize workflow to continue to champion the success of our customers.
- Understand and apply our andragogical principles in all your course content.
- Engage with student feedback in a variety of mediums and promote A Cloud Guru's materials and services.
- Regularly collaborate and engage with peers and other divisions throughout the content production process to deliver market-leading content.
- Create content in accordance with standards and processes.
- Create content in accordance with assigned project timelines and schedules.
- Build your technical and content creation skills under the guidance of Senior and Principal Training Architects.
- Create high quality, engaging content in collaboration with guidance from Senior and Principal Training Architects.
- Work with Community Content teams to ideate and contribute to web series, projects and other shorter-form content.
- Participate in course maintenance activities as assigned.
- Own and drive the continuous improvement of processes within the team through creating internal team standards documentation and provide constructive and solutions driven feedback on team communication standards and processes.
- Contribute to daily stand-ups, retrospectives and other team meetings.
- Effectively uses written, verbal and visual communication to facilitate technical discussion and share ideas.
- Build meaningful relationships across teams and business to support problem-solving and knowledge-sharing.
What you bring to the table
We focus on hiring values-aligned people, because we believe the right person can learn all the things to be successful in their role. Self-belief plays a big part in what you apply for. We encourage all job applicants to apply even if they are nervous to do so. Uni degrees aren't required for any roles, and career gaps or switches are totally welcome.
- 1+ years of hands-on experience with AWS
- 1+ relevant technology certification, cloud specific certification preferred
- The ability to deconstruct complex technical concepts into simple easy to understand language
- A passion for teaching or mentoring and helping others grow
- An interest in connecting with the AWS community through meetups/events
- Some travel to technology events may be requested in this role
This role is different than industry standard roles. If you're unsure if you're a good fit or have questions about the day-in-the-life, click here to watch videos of Training Architects answering your questions.
We want the people who care about doing a good job. The ones who have the humility and hunger to learn. - Sam Kroonenburg, Co-Founder and CEO
More than a job
Where you work isn’t just a career decision — it’s a life decision. We get it. That’s why we want all of our Gurus to feel a sense of belonging that comes from feeling supported in all areas of their lives. Everyone has family, friends and interests outside of their careers, so we offer perks and benefits to make work, work better for you.
- Remotely awesome. Get funds to level up your home office and internet, monthly snack boxes, free Headspace access, and weekly lunch funds.
- Remote first environment. Feel connected to your coworkers with events inspired by our values, weekly virtual happy hours, and lunchtime trivia.
- Weekly idea hours. We dedicate 2 hours every week to put aside our normal work to focus on learning something new
- Expand your family. We offer gender-neutral paid parental leave above the required minimum in all our locations.
- $1,000 continuing education budget. All Gurus get $250 a quarter to spend on personal development.
- 2 hours each week reserved for learning. Every Friday for 2 hours, we put down our normal work and spend time learning something new
Remote where?
The A Cloud Guru team has grown a lot since it was just two brothers with a dream of teaching the world to cloud! We now employ gurus in 30 states of the USA as well as in Australia and the UK. For the time being that’s as far as we can go. We won’t bore you with the details, but setting up the extra operations we would need to employ people in new states or countries is a little bit more expensive than replicating your database in another AZ, if you know what we mean. So as much as we would love to have staff in as many countries as we have students, we are only opening this role to applicants in areas we currently have operations.
Keep being awesome, Cloud Gurus.