About The Role


AWS Support is looking for a leader with a strong background in Incident Management and customer ownership to be there during the moments that matter for our most critical customers. We are looking for a Major Incident Manager to join our team to provide incident response and account ownership. In this position, you will play a pivotal role in providing communication, emergency response, technical resolver engagement and incident management for our customers.


Key job responsibilities

Every day will bring new and exciting challenges that include elements of:


Drive the resolution of large scale customer impacting incidents as part of a team rotation
Drive critical, complex customer escalations in situations that are sometimes technically challenging in collaboration with Engineering Teams.
Provide critical incident response/management (including leading calls with internal/external participants) for customer’s critical workloads
Contribute to Problem Records for customers
Conduct continuous real-time proactive monitoring of customer metrics
Prioritize, manage, and own emerging and developing customer issues from start to finish
Monitor and manage communications during high impact events via relevant channels
Collaborate with key stakeholders across AWS to improve the customer experience and develop mechanisms that support operational excellence
Lead projects and virtual teams to drive operational improvements
Create and review documentation; design/influence new standard operating procedures
Identify and troubleshoot recurring platform issues and own projects to drive improvements
Mentor peers in your areas of technical and operational strength
Perform other duties as required by the organization


A day in the life


AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.


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.


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 in the cloud.


Inclusive Team Culture


Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.


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 experince in a smilar role
3+ years of virtualization, orchestration and cloud computing (eg. Hypervisors, VMware, Xen) experience
3+ years of network and operating system support experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, or 3+ years of technical support experience


Preferred Qualifications


Industry specific accredited certification(s) such as AWS Associate level certifications
Familiarity with Cloud services
Ability to work in ambiguous environment and drive collaborative projects from conception to delivery