Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Note: Amazon internships are full-time (40 hours/week) for 12 consecutive weeks, starting May/June 2026. 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 an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph at the conclusion of the internship.
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:
Application Developer - AppDev 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.
Data & Analytics - Data & Analytics 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.
Key job responsibilities
· Build solutions that demonstrate technical breadth and practical knowledge of applicable AWS services
· Present technical content to internal and external audiences and collaborate across diverse stakeholder groups to deliver business value for Customers.
· Contribute to workload discovery, requirements gathering, and preparation of engagement-related presentations.
About the team
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
- Work 40 hours/week minimum and commit to 12 week internship maximum
- Are 18 years of age or older
- 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 2026 and June 2027
- 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)
Job Tags
Full time, Contract work, Internship, Work from home, Flexible hours,