Incident Management Engineer AWS Incident Detection and Response

Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small and midmarket accounts to enterpriselevel customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that worldclass support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building missioncritical 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. 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 selfstarter 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 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 followthesun 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
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 customers critical workloads
* Contribute to Problem Records for customers
* Conduct continuous realtime 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

About the team
Why AWS
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Diverse Experiences
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
We value worklife 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 theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

3 years of network and operating system support experience
Bachelors degree
Knowledge of distributed computing environments
Experience with AWS services and/or other cloud offerings

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 realtime 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:
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