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 AWS Incident Detection and Response team is part of the ASPIRE 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. We achieve these objectives by working closely with customers to develop runbooks and response plans customized to the context of each workload onboarded to the service. Onboarded workloads are monitored 24x7 by a team of Incident Management Engineers (IMEs) to detect and engage customers on a call bridge within 5 minutes of a critical alarm.

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.

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 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 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.

Please note as a follow-the-sun organisation, IMEs work the core hours of 7am-3pm UTC. Successful applicants will be required to work some weekends (Sunday to Thursday, or Tuesday to Saturday), and public holidays.

Basic qualifications

• 3+ years demonstrable Major Incident / Problem Manager Experience for organizations that run mission critical applications
• Experience communicating and delivering presentations to customers, stakeholders, and/or teammates
• 2+ years of technical support, or 3+ years of systems engineering experience

Preferred qualifications

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

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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