In Enterprise Engineering, we build the software, services, and infrastructure that enable Amazon teams across the world to do their work on a daily basis. We represent the intersection of AWS technology and the need for traditional IT solutions at Amazon’s scale. We’re an AWS-focused, security obsessed, builder-centric organization, focused on using AWS technology to reshape and reinvent the traditional IT experience. We succeed when we make Amazonians around the world more effective in their work and more efficient in how they get it done.
You and your team will work with internal Amazon service owners and AWS product teams to develop new services and solutions that give enterprise IT customers, along with those supporting public sector customers, more choice and self-service platforms that we offer our global workforce. You will build new solutions that raise the bar for security, automation, and operational excellence.
We are looking for a motivated builder to inspire our teams and deliver results to our customers. This is a hands-on position where your daily activities will range from strategic planning to new service development to supporting the customers that depend on your services. You will deliver consistent, well-defined results in an agile systems development workflow. To succeed in this role, you will deliver on-time results that delight your customers while inspiring your team to think big about their work. If this sounds like a fit, we would love to speak with you.
Key job responsibilities
* Partner with customers, stakeholders, third-party vendors, and service owners to deliver technical solutions for complex problems. This may be in the form of new software, systems, infrastructure, hardware, networking or automation improvements, or a refactoring of existing solutions.
* Embrace the AWS ecosystem and drive innovation on top of it
* Instill a culture that drives DevOps, holds a high-quality bar with code reviews, drives automation efforts to empower, and removes barriers for your team
* As a leader, influence the technology roadmap and innovation function/program of critical productivity tools
* Leverage Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence to realize business value from data, metadata, usage metrics, and productivity key performance indicators
* Reduce service operations burden via observability, automation, self-healing, and self-service enhancements
* Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed solution architectures and design
* Hands-on leadership for your team; working with others on the engineering team to guide the software and service development, collaborate on architectural decisions, participate in security reviews, carry-out deployments, lead trade-off discussions, and resolve incidents and feature requests.
* Build services that can scale across six continents for millions of Amazonians worldwide
* Deliver quality features on-time and on-budget and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
* Maintain current technical knowledge of rapidly changing technology, always on the lookout for new technologies, and work with management and development teams to evolve current processes
* Influence and mentor software engineers both within the team as well as across other teams in technology group
* Due to federal contracts, this position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen
About the team
The Amazon Email Services (AmazES) team is an engineering team that sits within the AWS’s Enterprise Engineering organization. AmazES owns first-party and third-party services that help Amazonians communicate at an unprecedented scale.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with Microsoft Exchange and/or PostFix e-mail platforms
- Master in writing complex object-oriented code in programming languages, preferably Python and/or PowerShell
- Experience automating and configuring systems using the Configuration-as-Code (CAC), Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC), and/or Desired State Configuration (DSC) in a large enterprise environment
- Understanding of database and analytical technologies in the industry including MPP and NoSQL databases, Data Warehouse design, ETL Pipelines, BI reporting and Dashboard development
- Hands on experience leading large-scale global data warehousing and analytics projects
- Knowledge of NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRamp, ISO 27001, or similar compliance frameworks
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