Job Information
Amazon Cloud Service Delivery Manager, AWS Managed Services in Dallas, Texas
Description
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.
AWS Managed Services (AMS) is designed to accelerate cloud adoption, it simplifies deployment, migration, and management using automation and machine learning, backed up by a dedicated team of Amazon employees. AWS Managed Services provides ongoing management of the AWS infrastructure. It automates common activities such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services, and provides full life-cycle services to provision, run, and support your infrastructure.
We are looking for someone that is at the forefront of transformational technology and has experience assisting enterprise customers take advantage of a growing set of AWS services and features to run their mission-critical applications. The Senior Cloud Service Deliver Manager is engaged with the client account level and is a trusted advisor; providing visibility, service reviews and reporting through all phases of the implementation life cycle. The successful candidate will be working closely with other AWS teams to ensure that all changes to a customer’s environments are smoothly carried out while meeting capacity needs and service level agreements. You will work with senior stakeholders on opportunities to improve their ICT landscape while working across customer organizations and multiple AWS teams to ensure customers’ applications are well designed and scaled to the needs of their business.
The ideal candidate must possess customer presentation skills that enable you to represent AWS well within a customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding incidents, trade-offs, best practices, and risk management. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges as you help our customers take advantage of the efficiencies, cost savings and quick innovation available in the AWS cloud. You will be surrounded by people who are passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success. Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job.
Key job responsibilities
Earn a Trusted Client Advisory relationship with our clients and team.
Work with customers to provide visibility and guidance around their AWS Services account through regular Operational Service Reviews and Reporting.
Provide detailed reviews of service disruptions, metrics, detailed pre-launch planning.
Work with the customers on operational and tactical issues.
Be involved in the change management process of the customer’s environment to ensure success and service up-time.
Work with application owners to develop and standardize test, upgrade, and release management processes.
Engage with Director and C-Level executives to understand business needs.
Go “toe to toe” with customer technical stakeholders on most issues.
Be the voice of the customer and work with internal AWS resources to ensure that the customer’s SLA’s are met.
Raise internal awareness of customer impacting bugs and/or issues, and drive the appropriate prioritization for fixes and/or responses.
Champion and advocate for customer requirements within AWS (e.g. feature requests).
Participate in customer requested meetings (onsite or via phone).
Triage technical issues.
Provide oversight of escalation, prioritization, and drive customer communication during critical events.
Assist in Design/Architecture of AWS and hybrid cloud solutions.
Establish a working relationships with other AWS account team members such as Technical Account Managers, Business Development Managers and others to achieve the best result for the customer.
Be available outside of business hours to help coordinate handling of urgent issues as needed.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS 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.
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 & 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.
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.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Dallas, TX, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
3+ years of experience working in a customer-facing service delivery or technical account management role, with a high level of accountability, and with excellent written and verbal communication skills to successfully engage with customers and colleagues.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in a 24x7 operational services or support environment
Experience in internal enterprise or external customer-facing environment as a technical lead
AWS Solution Architect Associate Certification
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $204,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.