Support Engineering Manager, Just Walk Out Tech

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Description

As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

We are seeking a Support Engineering Manager to lead a team of talented support engineers in supporting, building and maintaining the technology that drives Amazon Just Walk Out Stores! You will be challenged to invent, create and solve challenging problems and mitigate risk, always ensuring a Customer Obsessed experience has occurred. Your team will be working on hardware, software, and network infrastructure with a direct impact on the customer experience. Responsibilities include direct management of support engineers, process and operational improvements, project management, coordination of resources across teams and acting as an escalation point for both internal and external customers.

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 the operations engineering leadership team and interact with hardware, software, and infrastructure engineering teams to raise the bar for Security, Automation, DevOps patterns, and operational excellence.

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 and a strong command of one or more programming languages. You must enjoy collaborating with teams across the company and take pleasure from delighting customers.

If this sounds like a fit, we would love to speak with you.

Key job responsibilities

Your Responsibilities Will Include

Lead automation efforts for a team advancing a service ownership culture.

Embrace the AWS ecosystem and drive innovation on top of it

Instill a culture that drives DevOps, hold a high-quality bar with code reviews, drive automation efforts to empower, and remove barriers for your team

Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, always on a look out for new technologies and work with management and development team in bringing new technologies.

Provides detailed reviews of in-store technology disruptions, metrics and detailed planning.

Complete analysis and present periodic reviews of operational performance.

About The Team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

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.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship and 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of people management experience
• Experience communicating technical details verbally and in writing
• Experience in software development, or experience with automation and any version control tools and experience in technical support
• Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, math, business or equivalent
• Higher education preferred with 10+ years leading systems, networking, and support development efforts.

Preferred Qualifications

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Skills Required

Software Development, Technical Support, Systems engineering, People Management, Networking, Automation, Version Control Tools, Infrastructure Security, Cloud Computing