This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's world class technical team in Columbia, MD working with some of the best and brightest engineers and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.

We are currently looking for an Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineering Manager to help us grow our systems organization. You love to work with internal and external customers to execute projects and resolve issues. You are a believer in the dev-ops model of service engineering, and you are excited to run operations in an environment where developers don’t toss problems over the wall. And you are happiest when you are working with empowered, world-class engineers to meet world-class challenges. Finally, with your strong ownership bias, you have an infectious desire to continually improve how things are done.



AWS User Experience Products and Platforms (UXP2), Documentation and SDKs are building and delivering the next generation of customer facing services and features. We are bringing the next generation of the AWS Console Experience and it's latest commercial offerings into the hands of our customers.

In this role, you will lead a team of highly talented individuals, in managing and operating console platform, SDK and Docs services. This is a great opportunity to manage some of the largest-scaled systems in the world and work with some of the smartest people in the industry, while having a huge impact.

What does it take to succeed in this role?

A successful ADC Engineering Manager will do much more than manage infrastructure, tools, and people. You will provide leadership in driving automation that makes operating a massive large scale distributed system easy, while improving customer experience. You will own and drive the performance of applications, while auditing and driving operational efficiencies.

The ideal candidate is:

A good people manager. Building, motivating and mentoring a world-class DevOps engineering team is the most important part of this role. You should have a proven track record in recruiting and retaining top talent and excel in day-to-day people and performance management tasks.

Is technically and operationally deep. You will regularly take part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises and drive technical after-action discussions to identify root cause of complex issues. The ideal candidate has experience as a software or systems engineer.

Has strong project management experience. The successful candidate will create roadmaps for the team. This will include helping innovate and invent new value-add services layered on top of our existing services. You will need excellent technical project management skills to deliver roadmap items as well as other cross-team projects. Experience with Agile methodologies is an advantage.

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.