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Escalation Engineer - Amazon Web Services
Job Ref
274250
Job Type
Permanent
Employer Type
Company
Date Added
20 Jul 2018
Expiry Date 17 Aug 2018
Expiry Date 17 Aug 2018
* There have been 9 applications to this job.
* This job has been viewed 8428 times.
Employer:
Amazon Development Centre Cape Town
Location:
All Areas
Salary:
Market related
Benefits:
Role details:
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 customer facing 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, AWS Escsalation Engineers have front-and-center limitless exposure to all things AWS, including numerous leading edge technologies.
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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
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· 2+ years demonstrable track record with experience in incident management on mission critical services
· Highly motivated self-starter with technical aptitude and a commitment to achieving results
· Excellent ability to correlate system behaviors based on known interdependencies between those systems
· Demonstrated proficiency with Systems (Windows/Linux) and Networking concepts
· Excellent written and oral English communication skills
· Excellent critical thinking and logical problem solving skills
· Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment
· Effective prioritization and time management skills
· Work closely with others to identify opportunities for improvement
· Experience dealing effectively with internal and external customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure
· Confidence to initiate and lead AWS-wide conference calls
· Ability to analyze, consolidate, and aggregate data from various sources
· Open to working alternative hours (i.e. 7am-3pm or 10am-6pm), including some weekends and holidays as required
· Bachelor’s degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Knowledge of virtualization concepts
· Knowledge of AWS Services
· Knowledge of ITIL/Lean Processes
· Proven success in a fast paced support environment
· Succinctly convey complex problems in easy to digest terms for all stakeholders
· Be willing to act with a sense of urgency, balanced with diplomacy
· Bachelor’s degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field