The team's vision centers on scaling operational excellence through automation and engineering discipline. You'll join a culture that values proactive problem-solving, continuous improvement, and developing engineers who take ownership of complex systems. This is an environment where your leadership directly impacts AWS's ability to maintain the reliability and security that millions of customers depend on daily.
Key job responsibilities
Lead and develop a support engineering team through career mentoring, performance management, and strategic project assignments that evolve engineers from support mindset to engineering mindset, fostering continuous learning and next-level performance
Drive incident management and problem-solving at scale by directing technical responses during critical outages, analyzing root causes, and collaborating with engineering teams to advocate for permanent code fixes rather than temporary workarounds
Establish and optimize follow-the-sun support operations by managing global handovers, coordinating cross-regional resources, and ensuring seamless 24/7 coverage while maintaining work-life harmony for your team
Build process automation and operational excellence mechanisms by identifying repetitive toil, implementing automation workflows using agentic Al, updating support playbooks, and establishing metrics to measure team performance against SLAs, response times, and resolution rates
Partner with stakeholders across AWS to define team vision and long-term strategy, working backwards from customer problems to set goals, allocate resources effectively, and balance tactical operational needs with strategic engineering initiatives
A day in the life
Lead the deployment and operation of services in regions with specialised security needs.
Report on the health of these services.
Drive root cause analysis and coach others on performing them.
Lead local development efforts to improve operational performance.
Drive continual improvement in systems operations through the development of new tooling and automation.
Define and drive projects and report on their progress.
Meet with customers to develop relationships and clarify requirements.
Create and refine the staffing and support plan for the services that you support.
About the team
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
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Experience in managing system or software development teams
Experience (hands-on) in systems engineering and administrative work in networking, storage systems, and operating systems
Experience in automation or monitoring frameworks, deployment or development
Experience in systems administration, network engineering, or software development engineering
Experience in distributed system management
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field
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