Incident Management Engineer at Amazon Web Services

ABOUT THE ROLE

• AWS Support is looking for a leader with a strong background in Incident Management and customer ownership to be there during the moments that matter for our most critical customers. We are looking for a Major Incident Manager to join our team to provide incident response and account ownership. In this position, you will play a pivotal role in providing communication, emergency response, technical resolver engagement and incident management for our customers.

Key job responsibilities
Every day will bring new and exciting challenges that include elements of:

• Drive the resolution of large scale customer impacting incidents as part of a team rotation
• Drive critical, complex customer escalations in situations that are sometimes technically challenging in collaboration with Engineering Teams.
• Provide critical incident response/management (including leading calls with internal/external participants) for customer’s critical workloads
• Contribute to Problem Records for customers
• Conduct continuous real-time proactive monitoring of customer metrics
• Prioritize, manage, and own emerging and developing customer issues from start to finish
• Monitor and manage communications during high impact events via relevant channels
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across AWS to improve the customer experience and develop mechanisms that support operational excellence
• Lead projects and virtual teams to drive operational improvements
• Create and review documentation; design/influence new standard operating procedures
• Identify and troubleshoot recurring platform issues and own projects to drive improvements
• Mentor peers in your areas of technical and operational strength
• Perform other duties as required by the organization

A day in the life

• AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You’ll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years experince in a smilar role
• 3+ years of virtualization, orchestration and cloud computing (eg. Hypervisors, VMware, Xen) experience
• 3+ years of network and operating system support experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, or 3+ years of technical support experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Industry specific accredited certification(s) such as AWS Associate level certifications
• Familiarity with Cloud services
• Ability to work in ambiguous environment and drive collaborative projects from conception to delivery