Escalation Engineer, AWS Events Management&Comm

Amazon has built a reputation for excellence with recent examples of being named #1 in customer service, #1 most trusted, and #2 most innovative. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is carrying on that tradition while leading the world in Cloud technologies. As a member of the AWS Support team you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology assisting a global list of companies that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications. You will work with leading companies in this space and directly with the engineering teams within Amazon developing these new capabilities.

The Escalation Engineer II 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 stakeholders 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 Escalation Engineers have front-and-center limitless exposure to all things AWS, including numerous leading edge technologies.

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

About AWS

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Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)

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.

Amazon knows that a diverse, inclusive culture empowers us all to deliver the best results for our customers. We celebrate diversity in our workforce and in the ways we work. As part of our inclusive culture, we offer accommodations during the interview and onboarding process. If you’d like to discuss your accommodation options, please contact your recruiter, who will partner you with the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT). You may also contact ACAT directly by emailing acat-africa@amazon.com. We want all Amazonians to have the best possible Day 1 experience. If you’ve already completed the interview process, you can contact ACAT for accommodation support before you start to ensure all your needs are met Day 1.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Cape Town, ZAF | Waterfall City, ZAF

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent, or 4+ years of technical support experience
- 5+ years of experience in Support Engineering, Customer Escalations, Technical Communications, or similar IT role OR
- 5+ years of experience in technical operations or support focused on cloud infrastructure

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Candidates that have been most successful after joining our team have demonstrated capabilities in one or more of these areas:
- Industry specific accredited certification(s) such as the AWS Associate level certifications
- Familiarity with Cloud services with a focus on high availability and fault tolerant design
- Knowledge of ITIL/Lean Processes
- Ability to work in ambiguous environments
- Demonstrated critical thinking and logical problem solving skills
- Experience with data manipulation and/or automation using Python, JavaScript or shell scripting
- Effective prioritization and time management skills
- Excellent English Technical writing skills

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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