• E2M is looking for people who are detailed, analytical thinkers as well as creative problem solvers, with a strong bias for action
• You are someone who is not constrained by the notion of “how things are usually done”, and you are equally comfortable operating in the minute detail, as well as with coordinating efforts at the forty thousand foot view
• You confidently act as an advocate of your customer, maintaining composure in dynamic and high pressure situations
• You are comfortable working on highly technical initiatives to consistently improve the AWS customer experience
• You are someone who excels at working in a dynamic environment while collaborating with some of the smartest people in the industry, and you get excited about owning critical infrastructure services that serve global customers, every second of the day!
• Finally, you are passionate about technology with a desire to learn more and do more with AWS
• 2+ years of experience with Incident/Event Management for mission critical services
• 1+ years of experience in Support Engineering, Network Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or similar IT role
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science/Technology, Communications Engineering, Business, or a related field (or 3+ years of relevant work experience)

Desirable

• The Escalation and Event Management (E2M) team is part of the broader AWS Support organisation and is dedicated to managing critical escalations, customer facing communications, and handling large-scale customer impacting events
• E2M’s purpose is to drive operational excellence and improvements to the overall customer experience
• As members of the AWS Support E2M Event Management team, we work to identify widespread and systemic customer facing problems for Amazon Web Services
• We are responsible for monitoring internal tools to identify customers impacting issues
• When a problem is identified, we ensure the appropriate parties are engaged to drive the resolution of the problem and act as an advocate of the customer to both report on and manage the customer experience
• Because of our unique role as Escalation Engineers, we have front-and-center limitless exposure to all things AWS, including numerous leading edge technologies
• Provide critical incident response/management (including leading calls with internal/external participants) for customer’s critical workloads and AWS Service Teams
• Provide crisp and timely communication on developing issues to relevant internal and external customers
• Drive down mean time to engagement and communication for all incident types
• Facilitate Post-Mortem/Root Cause Analysis after each event to mitigate problem recurrence
• Work with key stakeholders across AWS to improve the customer experience and develop mechanisms that support operational excellence
• Analyze data trends on internal tickets, customer contacts, social media, and network monitors to identify potential issues
• Build a broad understanding of AWS architecture and service inter-dependencies
• Design, build, or collaborate on solutions using automation and self-repair rather than relying on human intervention
• Other duties as required by the organization
• 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
• The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success
• AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services