Observability Customer Success Specialist AWS Specialist and Partner Organization

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 Specialist role supports 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
Implement observability solutions for customer environments
Collaborate with customers to achieve their observability goals from basic monitoring to advanced AIOps implementations
Execute and optimize POCs in customer environments
Implement comprehensive observability strategies across metrics traces and logs
Configure and integrate AWS observability services with existing customer tool
Apply technical expertise in observability 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
Provide feedback to AWS service teams on customer needs and technical requirements
Document and share observability implementation patterns and best practices
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
Why AWS

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5 years of leading largescale technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership business case development realizing customer benefits and successful program completion experience
2 years of customerfacing work engaging with customer executives technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies experience
Bachelors degree in science technology engineering math business or equivalent

PMP certification or SCRUM/Agile SAFe certification
Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar

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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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.