Amazon Web Services has long had a natural edge over public cloud rivals – especially Microsoft – thanks to the devotion it gets from a new generation of application developers. If the cloud giant's latest recruitment drive is anything to go by, it wants to press home the advantage in Australia.
AWS is currently on a recruitment blitz to bolster its Australian channel team, hunting three roles for its Sydney office focused squarely on independent software vendors (ISVs), along with a handful of other partner-focused executives.
The cloud vendor is advertising for an ISV partner success manager, an ISV partner development manager and an ISV salesperson. The new recruits will help "develop the technology partner ecosystem and manage the relationships with strategic ISVs", according to job ads.
While AWS would not comment on the hiring blitz, it seems the new hires will be tasked both with wooing new ISVs to the Amazon ecosystem, as well as nurturing the vendor's top software partners.
The most senior role is the ISV partner success manager. AWS wants a 15-year IT veteran who will be tasked with "developing relationships with a few selected high potential ISVs in Australia and New Zealand".
AWS is also hiring for at least three more regionally focused roles for its channel team, including one partner development manager for Western Australia & South Australia and another rep for the Northern Territory.
AWS is also recruiting an account executive in its Brisbane office to look after on "one of our most successful and interesting technology partners (ISV) as they grow both their business and their adoption of AWS services".
One of the largest Australian software companies to build on top of AWS is Brisbane-headquartered Technology One, which was last year named its technology partner of the year at the AWS partner summit in Sydney.
An AWS spokesperson told CRN the company does not "comment on internal job hires".
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