Incident Management Engineer, AWS Incident Detection and Response

Incident Management Engineer, AWS Incident Detection and Response Job ID: 2881844 | Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services. The AWS Incident Detection and Response team is part of the Enhanced Support Services (ES2) organisation within AWS Support, and is dedicated to offering eligible AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive engagement and incident management to reduce the potential for failure and to accelerate recovery of critical workloads from disruption. 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. 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 an Incident Management Engineer 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. Please note that while this role is open to applicants in Sydney & Melbourne, as a follow-the-sun organisation, IMEs work the core hours of 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM AEST (11:00 AM - 7:00 PM NZST) regardless of location. Successful applicants will be required to work some weekends (Sunday to Thursday, or Tuesday to Saturday), and public holidays.

Key job responsibilities

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

About the team Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of network and operating system support experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Knowledge of distributed computing environments
• Experience with AWS services and/or other cloud offerings

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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
• Ability to work in ambiguous environments and drive collaborative projects from conception to delivery
• Ability to review complex technical details regarding ongoing issues/events and convey the key details to senior stakeholders to facilitate real-time decision making

Acknowledgement of country: In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. IDE statement: Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes. #J-18808-Ljbffr