Escalation Engineer - Amazon Web Services Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Amazon has built a reputation for excellence with recent examples of being named #1 in customer service, #1 most trusted, and #2 most innovative. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is carrying on that tradition while leading the world in Cloud technologies. As a member of the AWS Support team you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology assisting a global list of companies that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications. You will work with leading companies in this space and directly with the engineering teams within Amazon developing these new capabilities.

The Escalation Engineer I will work as part of the AWS Support Escalation & Event Management (E2M) Team to identify widespread and systemic customer facing problems for Amazon Web Services. You will be responsible for monitoring internal tools to identify customers facing potential problems. When a problem is identified, you will ensure the appropriate parties are engaged to drive the resolution of the problem and act as an advocate on behalf of the customer to both report and manage the customer experience. Because of our unique role, Escalation Engineers have front-and-center limitless exposure to all things AWS, including numerous leading edge technologies.

Overall Responsibilities

* Continuous real-time monitoring of incoming alarms
* Prioritize, manage and own emerging and developing customer issues from start to finish
* Quickly detect and diagnose service impacting events
* Provide critical incident response/management for AWS Service Teams
* Monitor and manage communications during high impact events via relevant channels
* Work with key stakeholders across AWS to improve the customer experience and develop mechanisms that support operational excellence
* Drive down mean time to engagement and communication for all incident types
* Broad understanding of AWS architecture and service inter-dependencies
* Collaborating with key stakeholders around documentation and processes regarding recurring issues as well as new service updates
* Provide crisp and timely communication on developing issues to relevant stakeholders
* Facilitate Post-Mortem/Root Cause Analysis after each event to mitigate problem recurrence
* Analyze data trends on internal tickets, customer contacts, social media, and network monitors to identify potential issues
* Deliver customer impairment reports for relevant stakeholders
* Ability to maintain composure in dynamic and high pressure situations
* Perform other duties as required by the organization