Manager, Network Operations

As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

We are seeking a Support Engineering Manager to lead a team of talented support engineers in supporting, building and maintaining the technology that drives Amazon Just Walk Out Stores! You will be challenged to invent, create and solve challenging problems and mitigate risk, always ensuring a Customer Obsessed experience has occurred. Your team will be working on hardware, software, and network infrastructure with a direct impact on the customer experience. Responsibilities include direct management of support engineers, process and operational improvements, project management, coordination of resources across teams and acting as an escalation point for both internal and external customers.

Successful candidates will be strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of developing engineers and teams that deliver results. You will be part of the operations engineering leadership team and interact with hardware, software, and infrastructure engineering teams to raise the bar for Security, Automation, DevOps patterns, and operational excellence.

We are looking for a motivated leader to inspire our teams and deliver results to our customers. You will lead your teams to deliver consistent, well-defined results in an agile systems development workflow. To succeed in this role, you should be incredibly customer focused and a strong command of one or more programming languages. You must enjoy collaborating with teams across the company and take pleasure from delighting customers.

If this sounds like a fit, we would love to speak with you.

Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:
Lead automation efforts for a team advancing a service ownership culture.
Embrace the AWS ecosystem and drive innovation on top of it
Instill a culture that drives DevOps, hold a high-quality bar with code reviews, drive automation efforts to empower, and remove barriers for your team
Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, always on a look out for new technologies and work with management and development team in bringing new technologies.
Provides detailed reviews of in-store technology disruptions, metrics and detailed planning.
Complete analysis and present periodic reviews of operational performance.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why 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.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship and Career Growth
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Must have BE/B.Tech or equivalent degree. Higher education preferred with 10+ years leading systems, networking, and support development efforts.
5+ years of direct people management responsibilities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (in person and via documentation/email) with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
You must be able to work with a minimum of technical supervision and supplemental engineering support, while responding efficiently to multiple program priorities.
Deep understanding of infrastructure automation delivered through the software development lifecycle – including agile development, software architecture/patterns, and modern cloud services.
Experience managing multiple concurrent programs and projects in an Agile environment.
Hands on experience in one of the technical domains; hardware, software, networking.
Experience leading teams that are a part of international organizations.
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Architect, design, implement, support, and evaluate tools and services with a security, scalability, and performance mindset.

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