Associate Delivery Consultant Intern - National Security, AWS Professional Services

Description

Note: Amazon internships are full-time (40 hours/week) for 12 consecutive weeks, starting May/June 2027. Applicants should have at a minimum one quarter/semester remaining after their internship concludes. This internship role is required to be onsite 5 days a week in Arlington, VA.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and be able to obtain/maintain up to an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph at the conclusion of the internship.

Job Summary
Do you want to experiment with innovative technologies, including Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, and GenAI? Are you passionate about educating, training, designing, and building cloud computing solutions to help customer solve their most challenging problems?

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leader in Cloud Computing, is seeking interns to join our AWS Professional Services Internship program. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in a fast-growing business and to deliver value to AWS customers of all sizes from startups to global brands. The skills and experiences you gain will be highly sought after throughout the industry and give you the opportunity for the career of a lifetime.

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that helps AWS customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries. In addition to working alongside our customers, we share our experience through technical artifacts and proof of concept demos.

As a Professional Services intern, you will gain hands-on experience in cloud computing, develop business acumen, and learn about Amazon’s peculiar culture. You will work on projects, have the opportunity to obtain the AWS certifications, and attend professional development events. This internship could lead to a full time role in Arlington, VA, that has up to 75% travel associated. While many of our customers engage ProServe virtually, there is always the potential that a customer might choose to include travel in their contract.

Upon successful completion of the internship program, selected interns may receive a full-time offer to join the Professional Services and go into our Associate to Consultant (A2C) team. This team provides an onboarding program that accelerates career development program for recent graduates and early career professionals entering technical roles to advance their skills and help customers design and build flexible and resilient cloud-based solutions. While in this program, you will learn key technical and professional skills from top AWS subject matter experts that you can use in your career working with AWS’s customers

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. For an update on your status, or to confirm your application was submitted successfully, please login to your candidate portal. Please note that we are reviewing a high volume of applications and appreciate your patience.

The program offers the opportunity to specialize in an area of interest including:

Security - supports our services that have a focus on enabling security specialists using AWS Services including Identity Access Management (IAM), GuardDuty, Shield, Key Management Service (KMS), CloudTrail, CloudHSM, Inspector etc. Within AWS, security is job zero, and we believe that solid security practices are the foundation for using the Cloud. We are looking for candidates who are passionate about working with products targeted for security professionals.

AIML - AIML role supports our services that leverage data and produce business insights, which may include using Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI/GenAI). Helping our customers use and integrate Big Data services in what is arguably our industry’s most exciting space. The portfolio of services covers EMR (Hadoop), DynamoDB (NoSQL), MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, Amazon Q, and Bedrock. 

Modernization - Modernization resources are specialists in designing applications that run natively in the cloud using programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, Typescript, etc. They are experts in building programs that run on any number of platforms including virtualized instances, containers, or server less architecture. They are full stack developers with backend, frontend, and UX skillsets.

About the team
Upon successful completion of the internship program, selected interns will receive a full-time offer to join ProServe Associate to Consultant (A2C) Delivery. A2C Delivery develops the next generation of ProServe consultants who use generative and agentic AI to solve customer challenges and drive innovation within ProServe. A2C Delivery focuses on accelerating career development for recent graduates and early career professionals entering technical roles, advancing their skills and helping customers design and build flexible and resilient cloud-based solutions. While in A2C, you will learn key technical and professional skills from top AWS subject matter experts that you can use in your career working with AWS’s customers.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members in an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Projects and tasks are assigned in a way that leverages your strengths and helps you further develop your skillset.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.

Work/Life Harmony
Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Basic Qualifications

- Are 18 years of age or older
- Are enrolled in a academic program that is physically located in the United States
- Work 40 hours/week minimum and commit to 12 week internship maximum
- Can relocate to where the internship is based
- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor or greater degree program (e.g. Bachelor degree, Master degree) in a STEM related field such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or other related fields, with a conferral date between December 2027 and June 2028
- Experience with Java and Python
- Experience with one or more of the following programming languages/technologies: Typescript, React, Angular, Node.js, Ruby, GoLang, R, C, or C++
- Experience with one or more of the following: networking fundamentals, security, databases (relational and/or NoSQL), operating systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows)

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with software development life cycle (sdlc) and agile/iterative methodologies
- Knowledge of the primary AWS services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53, and S3
- Experience setting up a cloud environment with AWS
- Experience with infrastructure as code, ops automation, and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The starting pay for this position is listed below. Starting Day 1 of employment, Amazon offers EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, 401(k) matching. Learn more about our benefits at https://hiring.amazon.com/why-amazon/benefits.