Systems Development Manager ADC2S

AWS established a specialized group of service teams responsible for the work we are doing with the U.S. Intelligence Community to build Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) environments.

We are looking for a motivated technical leader to own and grow a team of highly skilled Technical Engineers who will deploy and operate EC2 Services for critical workloads in the ADC regions.

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that after start the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Key job responsibilities
This role consists of owning and growing a team of skilled Engineers providing development and operational support for critical software infrastructure components upon which internal and external customers rely. The successful candidate will own and actively manage hiring and developing the best talent for this team along with keeping a high bar for the team consistent with Amazon Leadership Principles.

You will need to quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements learn new systems and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems when required.

You will take the lead in hiring quality personnel who not only fit the needs of the current organization but also will allow the team to scale with platform and service growth. You will coordinate with Amazon recruiting staff to evaluate potential candidates participate in initial phone screens and provide relevant guidance and feedback during onsite interview loops.

As a Manager within the AWS team you will be expected to drive operational excellence in everything we do. This includes creating processes and procedures then automating them to improve efficiency in our daytoday tasks and projects.

You will need to have the technical chops to advise and coach your team through the many challenges they will need to overcome to drive continuous improvement for their customers.

You will develop and drive the organizations strategy which includes mentorship and development of engineers and their ability to drive delivery and results.

About the team
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (IoT) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

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Bachelors degree
4 years of relevant handson systems development experience
4 years experience leading a highperforming engineering/operations/systems administration team
6 years of experience as an Engineering people manager
Current active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

Ability to interact with other teams to diagnose and solve technical problems
Experience driving large crossorganization initiatives
Strong sense of ownership urgency and drive
Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
Recruiting Operations leadership experience within a high growth tech company
Experience with Agile Management
Demonstrated success building and leading teams
Performance engineering and capacity planning background
Leading development life cycle processes
Mentoring and training Engineers

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $149700/year in our lowest geographic market up to $258800/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.