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Description

• Lead programs that make a difference in how EC2 manages and optimizes compute capacity for customers. Amazon EC2 provides on-demand scalable compute capacity, and powers some of the largest web services in the world. You will collaborate with a top-tier community to understand the unique needs of EC2, and help define and execute initiatives that span the organization.
• As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will have the autonomy, ownership, and responsibility to define and execute on programs on behalf of customers and to deliver new features and solutions that meet your customers’ rapidly expanding needs. Successful program managers are leaders who move fast, combine strong technical and communication skills, have an unrelenting tenacity to get things done, and are capable of breaking down complex problems and making data-driven decisions that best serve customers.
• You will also roll up your sleeves and work directly with local and remote engineering teams to help build and improve the features and services that you have defined. You will create and track metrics to define the success of your features and build data-based cases for your decisions. And you will develop enablement programs and content to help your features and solutions deploy at scale.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree, with 5+ years’ professional experience leading projects and programs in an agile software engineering environment
• Track record of working in an Agile environment to successfully deliver software development projects
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale technology programs that span across multiple teams or organizations to success, from concept to deliver and operations
• Top-tier program management ability to routinely deliver the right things at the right time, identify and manage risk, communicate proactively, and foster collaboration
• Ability and initiative to dive deep and understand technical details of the systems you work with, and to help shape technical priorities and strategy through data-driven contributions
• Track record of establishing, simplifying and improving processes. Ability to understand when processes and standards should be in place, and how to drive adoption and improvement over time.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and analytical abilities

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years’ professional experience leading large-scale technology programs
• Past experience and ability in software development
   

Company - Amazon Dev Centre South Africa
Job ID: A888934

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Description

• Build the systems that optimize how EC2 matches requests for Instances with the underlying compute capacity. EC2 Placement is seeking talented engineers to build the online and offline optimization systems for compute workload scheduling, and the customer capabilities to better manage those workloads. Amazon EC2 provides on-demand scalable compute capacity, and powers some of the largest services in the world. You will collaborate with a top-tier community of engineers to build systems to improve how customers are able to access EC2 compute resources.
• The successful candidate will have strong software engineering experience, with a passion for thinking about, building and testing distributed systems. You have an interest in how Machine Learning and other optimization techniques can be applied to large-scale problems. You have demonstrated experience building large-scale systems and taking leadership to make sure your systems work well. With strong engineering fundamentals, an analytical and data-driven approach to your work, and strong communication skills, you have the ability to collaborate well within and across teams to deliver results. We move fast and work together on small teams to solve big problems.
• If this opportunity sounds interesting, we would love to talk to you more about our work and the vibrant culture at AWS in Cape Town.

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience
• 5+ years of industry experience in a software development environment
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Java, C#, Python, Javascript, Scala, Kotlin
   

Preferred Qualifications

One or more of the following help you stand out:

• Demonstrated results designing, building and operating high-performance distributed systems in large-scale Linux environments
• Technical leadership experience with increasing scope of responsibility, and demonstrated ability to guide a technology roadmap
• Role model in writing high-quality, maintainable and secure code, mentoring others, and helping teams sharpen their development processes
• Ability to work effectively across teams to deliver results, with strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working with production machine learning systems

Company - Amazon Dev Centre South Africa
Job ID: A990608

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Description

• Build the systems that optimize how EC2 matches requests for Instances with the underlying compute capacity. EC2 Placement is seeking talented engineers to build the online and offline optimization systems for compute workload scheduling, and the customer capabilities to better manage those workloads. Amazon EC2 provides on-demand scalable compute capacity, and powers some of the largest services in the world. You will collaborate with a top-tier community of engineers to build systems to improve how customers are able to access EC2 compute resources.
• The successful candidate will have strong software engineering experience, with a passion for thinking about, building and testing distributed systems. You have an interest in how Machine Learning and other optimization techniques can be applied to large-scale problems. You have demonstrated experience working with a team to design, build and operate large-scale systems. With strong engineering fundamentals, an analytical and data-driven approach to your work, and strong communication skills, you have the ability to collaborate well to deliver results. We move fast and work together on small teams to solve big problems.
• If this opportunity sounds interesting, we would love to talk to you more about our work and the vibrant culture at AWS in Cape Town.

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience
• 3+ years of industry experience in a software development environment
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Java, C#, Python, Scala, Kotlin
   

Preferred Qualifications

One or more of the following help you stand out:

• Demonstrated results designing, building and operating high-performance distributed systems in large-scale Linux environments
• Role model in writing high-quality, maintainable and secure code, mentoring others, and helping teams sharpen their development processes
• Ability to work effectively across teams to deliver results, with strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working with machine learning systems

Company - Amazon Dev Centre South Africa
Job ID: A990609