System Development Manager III, Intelligent Cloud Control (ICC) Amazon
New York, NY

Job Description

The Intelligent Cloud Control (ICC) organization is looking for a Systems Development Manager to lead DevOps organization for Amazon's ecommerce platform technologies that host Amazon's Global websites. ICC is the organization at Amazon that owns connecting our worldwide websites and other consumer experiences such as Kindle, Amazon Video, and Alexa to the internet, as well as ensuring the highest level of availability, security and privacy of the web services that power the experience we deliver to our customers worldwide.

Our teams own the routing layer built on top of AWS technology that connects traffic with these experiences at low latency and protects the web services that power our consumer experiences against malicious robot and DDoS attacks. Our teams own the development of strategic DevOps tools that are used across Amazon to deploy, monitor and operate the 100s of Thousands of services that power our highly distributed website architecture.

Our development and systems development teams own the availability of all the consumer experiences we connect to the internet. Our tools include orchestration, predictive analytics, monitoring, diagnostic that enable us to deploy opinionated DevOps configurations that implement best practices in order to deliver the best availability experiences by intelligently managing how traffic flows through our highly distributed architecture.

You will have a proven track record of shipping highly scaled software and systems designs as well as thriving in the fast paced world of managing those systems in production. This role is one of both individual team delivery as well as collaboration with software and infrastructure teams across the Company to partner on new approaches to building and serving Amazon.com and associated systems. You will need to demonstrate great passion for customers, agility and adaptability in the face of fast changing business requirements and innovation.

Successful candidates will be strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of developing engineers and teams that deliver results. You will be part of e-commerce foundation technology leadership team and interact with Amazon teams to drive operational excellence and take e-commerce platforms to next level.

We are looking for a motivated leader to inspire our teams and deliver results to our customers. You will lead your teams to deliver consistent, well-defined results in an agile systems development workflow.

To succeed in this role, you should be incredibly customer focused, have a strong command of one or more programming languages and have knowledge on open source development. You must enjoy collaborating with teams across the company and take pleasure from delighting customers.

Specific responsibilities include the following:

* Building a strategy and execution rhythm for your group of engineers
* Contribute to defining and driving the long term products and solutions for Amazon.com's platform strategy
* Recruiting and talent development.
* Driving Operation Excellence in your organization.
* Strong communication and influencing skills at all levels of the organization.