Seeking a Leader to help scale our DBS Operations and Engineering Team!

Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
Location: Arlington
Posted on: June 10, 2021

Job Description:

We are looking for a strong Systems Engineering and Operations Leader to contribute to the growth of our organization within Amazon Web Services.

A successful Manager in the AWS DBS org will do much more than lead teams of Systems Engineers in writing code, launching new features, and triaging problems. We hold high standards for our computer systems and the services we deliver to our customers: and our employees are smart, passionate about the cloud, motivated to serve customers, and fun to work with.

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. We need a technical, detail-oriented leader who can build and grow organizations. You will excel at hiring and developing engineers and leaders and lead a charter which grows as your organization grows. Our services operate at large scale with workloads critical to national security, so passion and discipline around operational excellence is key. You thrive working with empowered, world-class engineers and meeting world-class challenges. Finally, with your strong ownership bias, you have an infectious desire to continually improve how we deliver on behalf of our customers.

A successful candidate will be a hands-on manager with an established background in developing and operating platforms and services, developing and hiring extraordinary talent, have strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a dynamic fast paced environment.

This role could in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. We're also interested in candidates who would prefer to consider Herndon Virginia or Seattle Washington home.

By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

This position can be based in Arlington, VA, Herndon, VA or Seattle, WA.

• Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of technical education and experience
• 7+ years building and operating large-scale software systems
• 5+ years of experience with at least 1 year in a Software Development Manager role managing managers.
• 5+ years of experience managing systems development and/or support efforts in an agile environment
• 2+ years of experience in preparing quality metrics and effectively engaging with stakeholders to set and drive quality goals
• Able to work in a diverse team
• Success delivering products/services in a high-growth environment, exhibiting strong ability to identify and solve ambiguous customer-focused problems
• Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work successfully with teams across the organization
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and perceptions
• Experience with Analytics or Database technologies
• High attention to detail with proven ability to juggle multiple, conflicting priorities simultaneously and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Proven skills designing and developing simple solutions to complex problems
• Good understanding of platforms and technologies with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• You have a track record of delivering technical programs, projects, and products in a highly technical multi-team environment
• Excellent written, spoken, and listening communication skills
• Past US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above a plus!

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

We are dedicated to supporting our new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work. 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.

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