Incident Management Engineer (E2M)

Amazon

Auckland, NZL

1d ago

Job summary

Amazon is now offering flexibility to choose between two working models, onsite and remote. Please, check below for further information :

Onsite Employee : An employee who works either entirely in an Amazon building, or split between both an Amazon building and remote location.

Employees will need to either live near or relocate to an already established Amazon building location.

Remote Employee : An employee who works in a remote location for the entirety of the normally scheduled workweek, for a period of more than 90 days in a rolling 12 month period.

These employees do not need to live near an Amazon office, but must live in New Zealand.

ABOUT US

Amazon has built a reputation for excellence with a mission to be the earth’s most customer-centric company, a company that customers from all over the globe will recognize, value, and trust for both our products and our service.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is carrying on that tradition while leading the world in cloud technologies.

The Escalation and Event Management (E2M) team is part of the broader AWS Support organization and is dedicated to managing critical escalations, customer facing communications, and handling large-scale customer impacting events.

E2M’s purpose is to drive operational excellence and improvements to the overall customer experience.

Please note for this position, the core business hours of operation are from 9am-5pm AEST . Please only apply to this position if you are able to accommodate these core hours.

ABOUT YOU

Incident Management Engineers have a broad skill set with demonstrated career progression and a proven track record of delivering results.

The successful candidate will possess strong analytical acumen, solid technology experience, superb business judgment, strategic account ownership and a propensity to dive deep to solve complex problems.

You will also have a passion for creating / providing a world class experience for our customers. The candidate must understand the competitive and industry landscape and must have the leadership presence and communication skills to effectively work with customers at all levels of their organization.

You must be a self-starter and able to execute at both a tactical and strategic level with a strong attention to detail.

This is a global role that requires excellent written and verbal communication skills and a passion and desire for leading the resolution of critical incidents.

Your decisions are not only fundamental to helping protect our most critical customers but will help maintain the health of AWS customers worldwide.

Finally, you are passionate about technology with a desire to learn more and do more with AWS.

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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years demonstrable Major Incident / Problem Manager Experience for organizations that run mission critical applications

2+ years of experience in Support Engineering, Network Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or similar IT role.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science / Technology, Communications Engineering, Business, or a related field (or 6+ years of relevant work experience)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates that have been most successful after joining our team have demonstrated capabilities in one or more of these areas :

Excellent written and oral English communication skills

Industry specific accredited certification(s) such as the AWS Associate level certifications

Familiarity with Cloud services with a focus on high availability and fault tolerant design

Experience with data manipulation and / or automation using Python, JavaScript or shell scripting

Knowledge of ITIL / Lean Processes

Effective prioritization and time management skills

Ability to work in ambiguous environments

Demonstrated critical thinking and logical problem solving skills

Experience driving collaborative projects from conception to delivery

Familiarity operating or designing distributed architectures with the ability to correlate system behaviors based on known inter-dependencies

Experience creating or designing cloud application architectures with a focus on high availability

Industry specific certification(s) such as the AWS SysOps Administrator certification

Experience with the creation and usage of JavaScript, Powershell, and / or BASH scripting

Ability to review complex technical details regarding ongoing issues / events and convey the key details to senior stakeholders to facilitate real-time decision making

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