System Development Manager, AFT

The Amazon Fulfillment Technologies team in Hyderabad is looking for a System Development Manager to manage all aspects of mission-critical services. Our team of engineers innovate automate drive process and service improvements and manage highly available systems that power Amazon fulfillment network worldwide.

A successful candidate for this role will have an established background in managing support organization has a strong customer focus excellent project management skills great communication skills and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. This manager will collaborate with business teams program/project management teams and software engineering teams to help articulate amazon fulfillment strategy to achieve Operational Excellence and scale our business. The role also involves driving smaller scope development projects and building custom tools.

Key job responsibilities

Lead a team of 8 highly talented Dev Ops & Sys Dev engineers responsible for managing all aspects of mission-critical systems.

Lead and manage the team that drives organizational standards for operational excellence and resiliency

Establish strong relationships with internal partners and peer stakeholders to understand and meet their needs while operating existing systems at a high quality

Participate in incident management to resolve outages and communicate with a global audience and participate in calls resolving outage.

Develop and maintain a culture of innovation and operational efficiency in the team.

Manage the design and development of new software solutions supporting our internal teams including code reviews testing deployment and post-launch monitoring

Hiring growing and retaining engineering team keeping up with the high Amazon bar. This leader will be responsible for continuing to build an extremely high caliber team.

A successful candidate will be a hands-on manager with an established background in developing and operating platforms and services developing and hiring extraordinary talent have strong technical ability great communication skills and a motivation to achieve results in a dynamic fast paced environment.


A Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field or five or more years of work experience in System development as an equivalent.
5 or more years of people management experience leading System development teams.
Proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Java C/C C# Objective C Python JavaScript Ruby and Go.
Experience designing building and operating large-scale distributed systems or web services.
Experience in managing large scale infrastructure and automation
Experience engaging and influencing senior executives using both verbal and written communication tools

Expertise in operational excellence security compliance and distributed systems resiliency.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations.
Experience developing in Python for similar modern programming language such as C Java C# or Ruby.
Expertise in operations of highly available and scalable internet systems with large customer base.
Experience managing staff and meetings across multiple sites and time zones.
Excellent communication abilities both verbal and written including long-form business writing on complex topics
Ability to drive effective teamwork collaboration and commitment
Excellent analytical problem solving and troubleshooting skills
Experience developing and improving operational documentation procedures and workflows
Ability to credibly coordinate between technical teams peers and business stakeholders
Ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies
Experience managing on-call support coverage escalation and critical issue management
Experience in contributing to the definition and implementation of automation opportunities within an operations environment
Experience in root cause analysis and error correction identifying changes to procedures and systems to implement long term fixes and avoid repeating issues

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