Job Description
Design and deliver technology solutions for complex business problems, driving revenue and growth for AWS customers.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. You design and deliver technology solutions which solve difficult business problems. You identify and solve ambiguous problems, architectural deficiencies, or areas where your team's systems hinder the innovation of other teams, and are learning to do this for other teams in your organization. You work autonomously, but may seek direction at times from peers and your manager. You consider the legacy of the systems you build with your team and how they will scale and evolve over time. Your solutions are pragmatic, efficient, and cost-effective. You make appropriate trade-offs and re-use or extend prior work where possible. When faced with short-term workarounds, you either avoid them entirely, take action to replace them with long-term solutions, or escalate their over-use as necessary. You thoroughly test your work. You consistently write clear, accurate, and concise documentation for your own solutions and improve your team's existing documentation.
You are a trusted technical contributor on your team, participating in strategic planning and decision-making with customers, partner teams, and peers. You work backwards from the customer experience, helping to balance customer requirements with team requirements and influence your team's goals and programs. You participate in your organization's Operational Planning process. You are an active reviewer of your team's technology solutions and operations. You are able to train new teammates, helping them understand your team's customers, systems, and processes. You recognize discordant views and take part in a constructive dialogue to resolve them. You participate in hiring and developing others, and effectively mentor others on your team or on teams within your organization.
You consistently demonstrate operational excellence in all facets of your work. You deeply understand your team's systems and can thoroughly diagnose problems in all aspects of operations, including hardware, software, and operating environments. You work to resolve the root cause of difficult performance, reliability, or availability issues and deliver innovative solutions, leaving systems better than when you found them. You learn how your team's components behave as part of the larger organizational system, and how to analyze systems to identify operational risks at the product or service level. You improve your team's operational health by participating in design, operations and post-incident reviews to identify risks to resilience. You then deliver projects that mitigate those risks. You may improve operational excellence across teams and provide guidance to peers outside your own team.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation and successful delivery of technical solutions for complex problems.
- Deliver technology solutions which improve engineering and operational processes within your team, and work to apply those improvements to partner teams.
- Be a technical leader for your team, learning to force multiply through others.
- Demonstrate ownership of your team's systems, proactively identifying and mitigating extant risks and deficiencies.
- Understand how your team's systems interact with systems owned by others and work to improve consistency and integration between them.
- Think in terms of architecture, not just components or services, and show good judgement when making trade-offs between tactical and strategic concerns at team or service level.
- Lead reviews of architecture, design, operations, process, or post-incident analysis for your team.
- Consistently work backwards from the customer experience to ensure correct solutions are built and incorrect ones are not.
- Influence your team's technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach.
- Be an effective communicator, harmonizing discordant views and building consensus amongst peers across teams.
- Set a great example to others with your systems, code, designs and implementation decisions.
- Actively hire and develop others by leveraging your expertise, coaching and mentoring in your organization.
About the Team
SysDev Engineering, Tooling & Automation (SETA) are a part of the AWS Frontline Support Organisation, focused on creating internal tooling as well as internal and external automation for AWS Support Customers and internal builders.
About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Qualifications
Experience (non-internship) in professional software development, including experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering. Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals and experience programming with at least one modern language.
Preferred qualifications include experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, and knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals.