Seeking a Leader to expand the AWS Monitoring & Observability team in Bellevue, Washington!
Would you like to implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the world's most complex technical problems? Do you have a deep passion and desire to engineer and operate the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure to build a better world for future generations?
AWS established a specialized group of service teams responsible for the work we are doing in support of the U.S. Intelligence Community. We are building some of the largest distributed systems in the world, and we need adaptable people to help us implement and operate them.
Our services operate at large scale with workloads critical to national security. These mission-critical cloud computing solutions require a relentless focus on operational excellence. Given the national security implications of our services, a deep passion for delivering reliable, secure, and high-performing infrastructure is essential. You will share big ideas and execute to deliver the next big innovations at rapid pace. You are a believer in the Dev-Ops model of service engineering, and you are excited to run operations in an environment where developers don't toss problems over the wall but solve them. And you are happiest when you are working with empowered, world-class engineers to meet world-class challenges. Finally, with your strong ownership bias, you have an infectious desire to continually improve how things are done.
At Amazon, we hire hands-on managers at all levels. This leader must be able to dive deep into the details on business, operations, and engineering and identify how to deliver outcomes where the solution isn't understood yet. As a ADC Manager, you will be be familiar with the technical implementation of creating, securing, deploying, maintaining, simplifying, and safely deprecating software through development and production environments. With this perspective, you drive identification of operational excellence improvements and drive adoption across the organization. You will excel at hiring and developing other Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineers technical skill and review and improve their work. You will grow leaders in your organization to identify manual actions and relentlessly drive improvements through elimination of process, creation of automation, or escalation through owning teams to drive a better experience for our Builders.
We need a technical, detail-oriented operations leader focused on operational excellence to drive best operational practices through the business. You will excel at hiring and developing systems level engineers. You will grow leaders in your organization and lead a charter that grows as your organization grows.
This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.
Key job responsibilities
As a leader you will:
- Hire, motivate, mentor and develop a team of engineers, promoting growth and opportunity
- Define the structure and strategy for the team determining the right mix of engineers and where they need to be allocated to meet the business goals.
- Establish a roadmap and successfully deliver engineering solutions that execute that vision. Your roadmap influences the organizational goals and you are involved in the yearly planning process.
- Provide your team with the necessary support to take responsibility for team systems end-to-end (design, code quality, system health).
- Develop senior engineers promoting growth and opportunities to demonstrate higher level role scope, impact, complexity, and leadership.
- Work cross functionally to foster a constructive dialogue, harmonize discordant views, and lead the resolution of contentious issues.
- Be an operational leader: Take a data driven approach consistently utilizing metrics to measure performance gaps and increase productivity by improving processes at the local level while driving improvements on the global scale.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Associate's degree, or Cloud+ or GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner)
- 5+ years of relevant hands-on systems engineering and administrative work in networking, storage systems, operating systems experience
- 5+ years of systems engineering and operations leadership for an Internet service or leading edge IT organization experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience as a technical lead, systems engineer, or technical program manager with significant experience in complex systems
- Experience managing cross-functional projects and initiatives
- 3+ years of distributed systems experience
- Can communicate effectively with all levels of the organization
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Bellevue - 157,900.00 - 213,600.00 USD annually
