Competence Center: Amazon Web Services

The competence center Amazon Web Services (AWS) organizes the continuous development of the AWS competence and business fields of HMS. We see ourselves as an internal HMS “AWS University” that offers all employees interesting training events and gives experienced colleagues the freedom to continuously deepen their expertise. Outside of HMS, we actively engage with the AWS community and strategically develop HMS within the AWS partner network.

We want to keep up with developments in the AWS Cloud.
Therefore, we are always happy to welcome new members!

Excerpt of Employees

Mark Bangert
Project Manager

Sophia Stahl-Toyota
Software Engineer

Andreas Luckert
Data Scientist

Strategic Knowledge Goals

  • Ensure visibility of the AWS Cloud at HMS.
  • Expand the presence of HMS in the AWS community.
  • Ensure that our technical AWS know-how is always up to date.
  • Understand and best promote interests in the AWS environment.
  • Make sure the introduction into the AWS world is as enjoyable as possible.

Armin Talks About His Work in the Competence Center

HMS Cloud AWS Amazon Jobs

Position: Senior Sotware Engineer
At HMS since: 2018
Scope of activities: Partner Management, Certificates, System architecture

Why do you participate in the competence center for AWS?
Do you like Netflix’s services? I certainly do! And if AWS services are good enough to keep Netflix running, I’m interested in how they’re built, what they offer, and so on. In addition, I’m also interested in how I can use the services to solve specific user problems.

What does working in your competence center look like?
The work in the competence center is a give and take: On one hand, I work on strategically relevant (or simply exciting) topics and spread them throughout the company. On the other hand, I naturally benefit from my colleagues who do the same.

How does working on this help you?
The collaboration helps me to use my knowledge budget in the most beneficial way: Interacting with colleagues ensures that I don’t get lost in a dead end. At the same time, I can continuously train my ability to impart knowledge, which often proves valuable.

Which methods or technologies do you use and how?
Basically, we base our choice of topics on concrete user needs, but also on the interests of the individual contributors. The primary methods for knowledge transfer are short impulse lectures followed by discussions. However, practical hands-on workshops are also offered, as well as concrete case studies.

Examples for Knowledge Circles

A colleague dove into the depths of Cloud Quest for us. Without any prior knowledge of AWS his avatar conquered one or two learning dungeons. He presented the results, alongside his takeaways… can cloud skills perhaps be actually acquired through playful learning?

We took a closer look at the different ways of marrying IaC and AWS. The focus was on AWS CDK and Terraform, as well as their individual strengths and weaknesses.

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