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Do you have experience as a leader in networking teams and want a new challenge? Do you enjoy learning about new technologies in a challenging, real-world environment? The AWS Enterprise Networking org at Amazon is looking for a manager with our Enterprise Systems and Automation team. In partnership with your engineering counterparts you will work to make our Enterprise Network more capable, scalable, reliable and efficient.
Key job responsibilities
– Lead a team of globally distributed network engineers supporting Amazon’s enterprise network infrastructure.
– Drive continual improvement in systems operations through tool building and iterative improvement.
– Partner with Engineering, Build/Scale teams to ensure high availability and uptime of the Enterprise Network.
– Define and drive projects that improve efficiency in day-to-day tasks (or automate them away completely), identifying key metrics that reflect the success of those projects, and reporting on their progress.
– Manage a highly technical team, and develop a deep knowledge of your area in order to propose new designs for wider review.
– Effectively define, analyze, and evolve key performance metrics to measure engineer and team performance and drive service improvements.
– Collaborate with customers and partners to bring new services into production
– Operate in a rapidly evolving environment, adapt quickly to new information, and re-prioritize as needed.
– Oversee network incidents ensuring customer impact is minimized.
– Some travel to meet with remote staff and customers
– Pro-actively identify resource needs, participate in recruiting efforts, and hiring to grow the team.
– Exhibit ownership of escalations ensuring consistent communication occurs and issues are driven to resolution and validated.
– Responsible for people management of a team of engineers, providing performance reviews, continual feedback, coaching and career growth.
– Identify, cultivate and grow technical leaders
About the team
The Enterprise Network provides mission-critical global connectivity for internal services and business applications, datacenter infrastructure equipment, and 1,000,000+ internal users. In this role you will look for innovative and creative ways to automate and scale our next-generation network architectures.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– BA/BS in an engineering or relevant experience
– 4+ years managing large-scale networking teams at an enterprise scale
– 4+ years of experience working with networking protocols including TCP/IP, BGP, MPLS, ISIS, etc.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Experience automating device configuration and management preferred
– Experience working with carriers to provision, install, and operate both voice and data networks
– Experience overseeing new office builds, moves, and decommissions
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $119,700/year in our lowest geographic market up to $232,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.