Incident Management Engineer, Aws Incident Detection and Response

DESCRIPTION

Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small

The AWS Incident Detection and Response team is part of the Enhanced Support Services (ES2) organisation within AWS Support, and is dedicated to offering eligible AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive engagement and incident management to reduce the potential for failure and to accelerate recovery of critical workloads from disruption. We achieve these objectives by working closely with customers to develop runbooks and response plans customized to the context of each workload onboarded to the service. Onboarded workloads are monitored 24x7 by a team of Incident Management Engineers (IMEs) to detect and engage customers on a call bridge within 5 minutes of a critical alarm.

ABOUT YOU

Finally, you are passionate about technology with a desire to learn more and do more with AWS.

ABOUT THE ROLE
AWS Support is looking for a leader with a strong background in Incident Management and customer ownership to be there during the moments that matter for our most critical customers. We are looking for an Incident Management Engineer to join our team to provide incident response and account ownership. In this position, you will play a pivotal role in providing communication, emergency response, technical resolver engagement and incident management for our customers.

Please note that while this role is open to applicants in Auckland & Wellington, as a follow-the-sun organisation, IMEs work the core hours of 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM AEST (11:00 AM - 7:00 PM NZST) regardless of location. Successful applicants will be required to work some weekends (Sunday to Thursday, or Tuesday to Saturday), and public holidays.

Key job responsibilities
Every day will bring new and exciting challenges that include elements of:

- Drive the resolution of large scale customer impacting incidents as part of a team rotation
- Drive critical, complex customer escalations in situations that are sometimes technically challenging in collaboration with Engineering Teams.
- Provide critical incident response/management (including leading calls with internal/external participants) for customer’s critical workloads
- Contribute to Problem Records for customers
- Conduct continuous real-time proactive monitoring of customer metrics
- Prioritize, manage, and own emerging and developing customer issues from start to finish
- Monitor and manage communications during high impact events via relevant channels
- Collaborate with key stakeholders across AWS to improve the customer experience and develop mechanisms that support operational excellence
- Lead projects and teams to drive operational improvements
- Create and review documentation; design/influence new standard operating procedures
- Identify and troubleshoot recurring platform issues and own projects to drive improvements
- Mentor peers in your areas of technical and operational strength
- Perform other duties as required by the organization

About the team
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of network and operating system support experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of distributed computing environments
- Experience with AWS services and/or other cloud offerings

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Industry specific accredited certification(s) such as the AWS Associate level certifications
- Familiarity with Cloud services with a focus on high availability and fault tolerant design
- Experience with data manipulation and/or automation using Python, JavaScript or shell scripting
- Ability to work in ambiguous en