Amazon Region Reliability Manager ADC 

United States, Colorado, Denver 

979368028

Our services operate at large scale with workloads critical to national security. These mission-critical cloud computing solutions require a relentless focus on operational excellence. Given the national security implications of our services, a deep passion for delivering reliable, secure, and high-performing infrastructure is essential. You will share big ideas and execute to deliver the next big innovations at rapid pace. You are a believer in the Dev-Ops model of service engineering, and you are excited to run operations in an environment where developers don’t toss problems over the wall but solve them. And you are happiest when you are working with empowered, world-class engineers to meet world-class challenges. Finally, with your strong ownership bias, you have an infectious desire to continually improve how things are done.At Amazon, we hire hands-on managers at all levels. This leader must be able to dive deep into the details on business, operations, and engineering and identify how to deliver outcomes where the solution isn’t understood yet. As a Region Reliability Engineering Manager, you will be be familiar with the technical implementation of creating, securing, deploying, maintaining, simplifying, and safely deprecating software through development and production environments. With this perspective, you drive identification of operational excellence improvements and drive adoption across the organization. You will excel at hiring and developing other Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineers technical skill and review and improve their work. You will grow leaders in your organization to identify manual actions and relentlessly drive improvements through elimination of process, creation of automation, or escalation through owning teams to drive a better experience for our Builders.We need a technical, detail-oriented operations leader focused on operational excellence to drive best operational practices through the business. You will excel at hiring and developing systems level engineers. You will grow leaders in your organization and lead a charter that grows as your organization grows.
This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.Key job responsibilities
In this role you will have the opportunity to:
- Own the continual improvement of operations at AWS.
- Identify Builder operational pain points from disparate data and drive actions to resolve them. Examples includes creation, improvement, simplification, and elimination of processes. Knowing when to create a solution vs. improving existing tools.
- Work across Region Reliability to root cause operational challenges and
- Hire, train, and grow new region reliability engineers
- Drive continual improvement in systems operations through tool building and automation.- Report on the health of these services at an executive level.
- Meet with internal and external customers to develop relationships and clarify requirements and schedules.- Work in an environment where operational excellence is truly the first priority, and where the degree of automation is above bar.
A day in the life
Denver, CO, USA

- Associate's degree, or Cloud+ or GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner)
- 7+ years of relevant hands-on systems engineering and administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems
- 3+ years of experience as the systems engineering and operations leader for an Internet service or leading edge IT organization operating in a 24x7 environment
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI