The Team AWS Resilience owns service that prevent and respond to availability and security issues for all AWS Services.
In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running.
We work on the most challenging problems, with constant new services and possible failure modes to prevent — and we're looking for talented people who want to help.
AWS Incident Tooling is at the heart of the high availability of Amazon Web Services.
We make customer impacting events shorter and less frequent by detecting early large-scale events and providing the tooling to enable fast mitigation.
Our automated tooling quickly identifies the cause of an issue and helps mitigate its impact.
Our engineer time is spent on projects to improve the tooling and automation.
We also provide our solutions for other AWS groups to manage their own events.
It's an exciting time to join our team as we are growing and expanding our offerings.
The Role As a Software Development Manager on the team, you will manage automated tooling roadmaps and delivery for the detection and resolution of issues within AWS infrastructure.
You will work closely with the team managing the incident response and with leadership to gather new requirements.
Based on learning from past incidents you will drive further improvements into our automation, tooling, and processes so that the next event is shorter or avoided entirely.
You will coordinate across project teams to expand use of our tooling to additional areas across Amazon.
If you're looking for a team with great growth potential and an opportunity to make a huge impact, this is the team to join.
AIS AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure.
In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running.
We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on.
We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we're looking for talented people who want to help.
You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles.
You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers.
And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
Key job responsibilities Define and Deliver Business Priorities - Serve as a key contributor and owner of the direction of the AWS Incident Management team - Define, plan, track and deliver on strategic goals for the team, while ensuring the team remains unblocked and focused Cross-Site, Cross-Team Coordination - Coordinate with counterparts and sister teams to ensure clear communication channels exist between AWS Incident tooling and Response teams - Work closely with alarming systems to create and maintain a proper end-to-end experience from detecting and alarming to mitigating incidents Performance Management/Team Health - Own all facets of performance and career management for the team - Ensure the operational load of the team remains manageable and as minimal as possible A day in the life Your day will be a blend of strategic planning, collaborative problem-solving, and innovative tooling development.
You'll dive into complex infrastructure challenges, design automated solutions, and lead a team dedicated to minimizing service disruptions.
Expect to engage in cross-functional discussions, analyze incident patterns, and develop cutting-edge prevention strategies that transform potential risks into opportunities for improvement.
About the team We are a passionate collective of technology experts committed to maintaining the reliability and security of AWS services.
Our team represents diverse backgrounds and skills, united by a shared mission to deliver exceptional cloud infrastructure.
We believe in collaborative innovation, where every team member's insight contributes to solving global technological challenges.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations - Experience in engineering team management - Experience in engineering - Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services - Experience partnering with product and program management teams PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy - Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers - Experience managing a team of high calibre Software Engineers developing complex, world class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers