Siemens in India Accelerates Job Readiness for Graduate Hires with AWS India Tech Alliance

Siemens Technology and Services Pvt Ltd (STSPL) in India is a Global Capability Center for innovation within Siemens' global ecosystem. As the holding unit of Siemens Foundational Technologies, the worldwide research and development (R&D) division of Siemens, STSPL plays a pivotal role in transforming Siemens’ businesses and operations. The organization supports digital transformation and sustainability while developing cutting-edge solutions for smart infrastructure, digital industries, and mobility.

As Siemens accelerates its pace of transformation with high-impact R&D projects, the business sought to rapidly develop the core cloud skills of early-career talent entering the workforce. Unnikrishna Pillai, associate vice president at Siemens Foundational Technologies in India, explains, “Our goal was to accelerate the job-readiness of our new graduate hires and maintain key project timelines and business continuity for our customers.”

To help early-career talent be more productive, STSPL joined the AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance India program. AWS Tech Alliance is a coalition of employers, governments, and education institutions who want to boost career readiness by integrating industry expertise into student programs. “We joined the AWS Tech Alliance because it gave us a pathway to accelerate the onboarding process and develop a workforce prepared to address our changing needs,” says Pillai.

Collaborating with the AWS India Tech Alliance team, STSPL conducted detailed gap analysis sessions to identify the training improvements in AWS learning. A structured, self-paced curriculum was developed through AWS Educate, including over 38 hours of AWS Technical Essentials training, hands-on experience labs, cloud badge earning opportunities, and access to AWS Skill Builder for advanced learning. This also featured customized training modules on core cloud skills through Cloud Engineer Pathway—a skill map created by the Tech Alliance team—to provide learners with a deep dive into cloud engineering and AWS consoles in sandbox environments.

The resulting curriculum provided comprehensive technical coverage—including compute, storage, databases, and networking—along with advanced topics like artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud infrastructure deployment, Windows and Linux operating systems, security monitoring, and network troubleshooting. “New hires were provided with access to multiple course components before their Siemens joining date, helping them to earn certifications, complete cloud engineering projects, and prepare for real-world cloud environments” says Pillai. “This also helped us assess and identify hires who needed additional support during their training at Siemens.”

The first cohort of 120 learners undertook a cloud engineer skills map, with STSPL assessing the results to help plan early career development. After onboarding, new hires continued learning through AWS Hackathons, workshops, and boot camps. This aligned them to STSPL’s internal learning culture where hackathons aid innovation and experimentation in a low-risk environment while offering networking opportunities for cross-functional teams.

Subhajit Ghosh, a learner from the Cloud Engineer Skills Map, says, “The AWS curriculum gave me practical expertise in cloud infrastructure and services, combining theoretical knowledge with hands-on lab experiences. I developed skills in infrastructure management, operational efficiency, and security—equipping me to design efficient, scalable, and secure cloud solutions.”

By empowering early-career talent with cloud skillsets, STSPL graduate hires have begun contributing to live projects and taking on more complex responsibilities within their first few months of joining Siemens. Pillai adds, “AWS learning modules have significantly reduced training periods—from five months to just three—meaning new hires can contribute from day one. This early productivity has increased overall team efficiency, with senior managers now able to delegate business-critical tasks while focusing on their core responsibilities.” In addition, overall employer satisfaction with new hire performance has exceeded 80 percent, reflecting the success of the program’s practical learning approach.

With training pathways in cloud technology delivered through AWS Tech Alliance, graduate hires at STSPL also gain a firm base for future success while identifying opportunities for long-term career growth and personal development. STSPL’s strategic skilling collaboration with AWS has helped prepare graduate hires not only for cloud engineering roles but also for cloud-adjacent positions such as solution architects and application developers. Srikanth Vachaspati, head of people and organization at STSPL, says, “The AWS Tech Alliance program has helped prepare our early career hires to be industry-ready, reducing the time and effort needed to make them productive. As we shift from product centricity to a technology and solutions focus, the program has aligned talent skilling with our strategy. Beyond technology training, the ease of working with AWS has also driven successful outcomes.”