Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. To meet the ever-growing demand for AWS Services around the globe, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.

Amazon’s network is a key differentiator for AWS, enabling the global operation of thousands of applications across hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide. We are looking for a Network Development Manager who will have the opportunity to attract and lead a new world-class team to assure the operational success of critical, high performance, large scale networking capabilities for a strategic partner.

As Network Development Manager, you will be managing and developing a team of junior and senior network engineers and be responsible for end-to-end operational health of the network; including capacity management, implementation, automation, process management and change control. At Amazon, we ask our technical leaders to be great engineers who can dive deep and get involved, keeping their own technical skills current and ensuring the right engineering expertise exists within the team. In addition, our leaders are thoughtful managers who support and mentor their team and create a friendly working environment of mutual trust and respect.

The ideal candidate will have an established background in managing similar teams, with a proven track record in driving operations and continuous improvement of large scale networks for mission critical workloads. You will have a passion for operational excellence and want to identify areas of improvement in our existing frameworks, tools, processes and documentation, striving to make them better. You will have a deep understanding of how to safely implement change, measure and analyse performance, and respond to events to ensure the network always operates as intended.

In this role you will have the opportunity to leverage your technical knowledge with your management and people skills to build and develop a high performing team you are proud of that delivers an exceptional experience to our customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or relevant degree/experience
· 8+ years of relevant network engineering experience
· 4+ years managing and developing a team with responsibility for network operations
· In-depth knowledge of networking and automation

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Excellent communication abilities, both verbal and written, including long-form business writing on complex topics
· Ability to drive effective teamwork, collaboration and commitment
· Excellent analytical problem solving and troubleshooting skills
· Experience developing and improving operational documentation, procedures and workflows
· Ability to credibly coordinate between technical teams, peers and business stakeholders
· Ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies
· Experience managing on-call support coverage, escalation and critical issue management
· Experience in contributing to the definition and implementation of automation opportunities within an operations environment
· Experience in root cause analysis and error correction, identifying changes to procedures and systems to implement long term fixes and avoid repeating issues
· Experience with shell scripting and/or familiarity in one or more development languages
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
If you do not meet all of these criteria, but still think you would be a great fit for this role, then we welcome you to get in touch.

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