Amazon Web Services hunts for Australian Microsoft sales lead

Amazon Web Services is looking to expand its expertise in deploying Microsoft's server technology on its own cloud for large Australian customers.

The cloud giant has kicked off a search to hire a head of sales for the Microsoft platform for Australia and New Zealand to focus on accelerating the adoption of SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business and .Net applications running on AWS infrastructure.

The successful application will work with AWS's large enterprise customers and existing account teams to identify and pursue new sales opportunities for corporate application workloads and large data centre migration projects.

"Do you have the business savvy, technical background, and sales skills necessary to help position Amazon as the cloud provider of choice for Windows Server solutions?" the AWS job ad asked.

"As a member of the worldwide leader for this fast growing, exciting space you will have the opportunity to help drive the growth and shape the future of a service category that will have a significant impact on our customer's global computing model."

The head of sales will ultimately be responsible for driving large and highly complex opportunities to closure, including migrating line of business applications powered by SQL Server and corporate apps like SAP.

The job requires extensive experience selling Microsoft solutions to large, global enterprises, but experience working for Microsoft or a systems integrator partner is preferred. The preferred candidate would also have more than 10 years of experience in technology sales or business development.

Despite going head-to-head with its own Azure cloud platform, AWS has supported Microsoft server technology since 2012 with the introduction of Windows Server 2012, on AWS's Elastic Beanstalk instances.