The AWS India Support team is seeking an experienced Operations or Support Manager based in India to lead a team of 15-20 Support Engineers on the night shift providing world-class support on all AWS offerings (http://aws.amazon.com/). Our customer facing Support Engineers provide customer's workload review and resolve technical issues ranging from general guidance through technical deep-dives identifying and resolving complex configuration and 3rd party integration issues. Support engineers also develop many of their own tools and interact heavily with their peers developing the offerings.
Apart from working on a broad spectrum of technical issues an AWS India Support Manager may also coach/mentor new hires develop internal and external facing contents deliver trainings partner with development teams on complex issues or contact deflection initiatives participate in new hiring write tools/script to help the team or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives. Our Engineers are also the "voice of the customer" and have a strong voice into the development teams for recurring issues or feature requests.
Key job responsibilities
Key expectations of the AWS India Support Manager include: • Manage the day-to-day operations of the India night shift ensuring seamless collaboration with other managers adequate team staffing and SLA commitments are met. • Drive personnel management ensuring the engineers have what they need to provide best-in-class support. • Ensure quality of the workload reviews and the customer sentiment. • Participate in Hiring Process to hire and build/grow team of Support Engineers in India. • Influence Sr. Support Engineers and development teams to improve the customer support experience. • Propose drive and implement initiatives within the support organization to maximize the customer support experience. • Managing the engineers in the team effectively to keep their focus on the customers as well as develop their own career. • Handle escalations and guide engineers to the proper teams by diving deep into the problem. • Drives effective business and technical discussions.
About the team
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5+ years of managing with a track record of success experience
7+ years of engineering team management in a fast-paced operations environment experience
Experience as a manager with a track record of success
Experience in engineering teams management in a fast-paced operations environment
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
Master of Business Administration
Experience driving projects to improve operations and support-related processes
Experience handling large enterprise technical customer escalations
Experience in AWS services
Experience in project and program management and delivering key business outcomes
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