AWS is one of Amazons fastest growing businesses servicing millions of customers in more than 190 countries. As organizations increasingly rely on cloudnative applications and distributed systems fullstack observability has become critical to collecting correlating aggregating and analyzing telemetry in network infrastructure and applications in the cloud hybrid or onpremises environments to gain insights into the behavior performance and health of systems.
The Observability Customer Success Manager role owns our customers post launch journey around observability including the forwardlooking strategy for observability technical design and implementation adoption and ensures we continue to provide value while increasing retention and expanding the customers observability footprint on AWS. The team guides customers through the technical operational and organizational aspects of implementing successful observability practices across their cloud environment.
In this role you will engage and build relationships across relevant customer personas in our largest and most strategic enterprise customers. You will be technically credible in observability solutions (both commercial as well as open source solutions) while effectively shaping the customer journey and developing your teams capabilities. The ideal candidate will have enterprise experience with observability platforms distributed systems monitoring and modern DevOps practices. You will be passionate about helping customers achieve operational excellence through effective observability implementation.
Today AWSs observability services are critical for customers running modern applications at scale. The insights provided by AWS full stack observability solutions help detect investigate and remediate problems faster and coupled with AI and ML proactively react predict and prevent problems. This role will be deeply crossfunctional and engage with AWS teams across sales solutions architecture and AWS services working at the CxO level at customers to maximize customers observability investments.
Key job responsibilities
* Lead a team of Customer Success Specialists focused on observability solutions
* Partner with customers to define and achieve their observability goals from basic monitoring to advanced AIOps implementations
* Define and implement POCs in the customer environment
* Guide customers in implementing comprehensive observability strategies across metrics traces and logs
* Drive adoption of AWS observability services while helping customers integrate with their existing tools
* Provide technical leadership in observability best practices including:
* Distributed tracing implementation
* Metrics collection and analysis
* Log aggregation and analysis
* Alert management and incident response
* Application performance monitoring
* SLO/SLI definition and monitoring
* Work with AWS service teams to represent customer needs and influence the roadmap
* Develop and share observability best practices across the customer base
Required Technical Knowledge:
* Deep expertise with observability platforms and tools such as:
* AWS native services (CloudWatch CloudTrail etc.
* Opensource solutions (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry)
* Commercial solutions (Datadog New Relic Splunk Dynatrace)
* Understanding of modern application architectures (microservices containers serverless)
* Experience with DevOps practices and tools
* Knowledge of SRE principles and practices
About the team
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* 10 years of technical customerfacing roles
* 5 years of observability platforms and solutions
* 5 years of people management experience
* Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field
* Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts and AWS services
* Excellent communication skills at both technical and executive levels
* Experience implementing observability solutions at enterprise scale
* Background in SRE DevOps or Platform Engineering
* AWS Certifications
* Experience with digital transformation initiatives
* Track record of growing customer relationships and driving business outcomes
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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