At Amazon, we ask our technical leaders to be great engineers who can dive deep and get involved in helping their engineers make good decisions and deliver quality solutions. They should maintain a good level of technical understanding and be able to ensure the right engineering expertise exists within the team. In addition, our leaders are thoughtful managers who support and mentor their team and create a friendly working environment of mutual trust and respect.
This is a high visibility and high impact role.
To be considered for this role you must be a UK national.
Key job responsibilities
The person in this role will be responsible for
Managing software and network issues to drive down availability risks, while ensuring they are addressed long-term through effective solutions that prevent a recurrence.
Identifying and implementing innovation opportunities that improve the security, availability, scalability, performance, agility and cost efficiency of the network.
Working closely with customers and internal partners to develop, communicate, and deliver technology roadmaps that invent new network and software solutions.
Ensuring that the design, management, implementation, and deployments are sound and executed at scale, safely keeping AWS ahead of customers' demand.
Representing networking to our customers, senior leadership, and internal service/infrastructure teams, to ensure that network dependencies and deliverables are identified and delivered as needed.
Ensuring best practices from AWS are adopted, and that we are always compliant with security requirements.
Building a world class team by attracting, developing, and retaining industry leading talent. This includes technical and soft skills mentoring, career and growth management, 1:1s, training, and day-to-day oversight.
You must be a UK national and able to obtain and maintain a UK Government Security Clearance. Further details found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels
A day in the life
The networking lead owns the design, planning, development, and delivery of network and software infrastructure for Region Expansions that require the highest level of regulatory compliance and security.
Our vision is to deliver connectivity services that set the standard for performance, availability, security, and cost, making AWS the clear choice for customers. Our mission is to make the network completely invisible to anyone using it. We do this by delivering capacity ahead of demand, maximizing security and availability, building extensible solutions that are easy to use, and resolving faults before anyone can notice.
A day in the life includes tactical event response, project management, developing and aligning leaders on new strategies, inspecting metrics to find new ways to further automate the network, and managing a talented team of builders across network, systems, and scaling disciplines.
About the team
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.
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon diversity conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Bachelor's degree or above in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related fields
Experience with networking and troubleshooting (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, firewalls, LAN/WAN, traceroute, iperf, dig, cURL or related) at an advanced level
Experience establishing credibility quickly with senior level executives across organizations
Experience coordinating between technical teams, peers and business stakeholders
Experience writing strategy documents for executive audiences with clear recommendations in the midst of ambiguity
Experience in root cause analysis and error correction, identifying changes to procedures and systems to implement long-term fixes and avoid repeating issues
Experience in software development, or experience with software development lifecycle
Experience driving projects to improve operations and support-related processes
Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Experience working within a high-growth technology company and large-scale networking environment
Experience managing on-call support coverage, and participation in escalation and critical issue management
7+ years of network management experience.
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