Clearable Fleet Remediation Engineering Manager, Fleet Remediation Engineering

We have an immediate opening for a Fleet Remediation Engineering Manager in the Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) Region, supporting Amazon's government customers.

Amazon's vision is to be the world's most customer-centric company, and this role is key to that vision. As a Fleet Remediation Engineering Manager, you will be leading projects to fit out our data centers to meet ever-evolving customer needs as we continue expanding our fleet to hyper-scale. As an ideal candidate you:

• Possess Strong Engineering Judgement and are able to provide recommendations despite uncertainty
• Are detail and data oriented
• Have experience managing engineering projects and consultants.
• Build trust and relationships with different stakeholders (e.g., Operations, Commissioning, Construction and Design)
• Open to travel 25% of the time

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. Upon application you will be asked qualifying questions that will be used only in relation to the US Government Security Clearance required for this role.

Key job responsibilities
As an Amazon Fleet Remediation Engineering Manager, you will manage a team that provides full life-cycle support to AWS Data Centers from project design inception through site improvement. You will be the ‘go to’ engineering resource for your region to design projects that remediate issues found within our data center fleet. You will use your leadership expertise to:

• Hire employees that demonstrate Amazon Leadership Principles.
• Manage team and individual performance, including promotions.
• Establish, create, and/or streamline metrics.
• Establish engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices. Share best practices with peers to drive efficiencies in repeatable work.
• Make trade-offs on competing business needs using high judgement.
• Influence strategic direction of the team.
• Identify areas of growth for the team.
• Work directly with partner teams to implement new and improve upon existing processes and procedures.
• Drive communication of technical strategy with limited guidance within their assigned region.
• Manage up to 10 team members with varying levels of technical experience.
• Identify complexity and risks to unblock engineers and partner teams.
• Drive team timeliness, quality, operational stability and success meeting customer requirements/business objectives. Able to identify where to simplify, optimize, and reduce overhead.
• Use judgement to find a path forward in difficult situations. Manage escalations.
• Provide clear, concise, and accurate communication (both verbal and written), and to determine what levels that communication routinely occurs.
• Drive engineering processes to improve operational excellence with customer interaction, development methodology, working with other teams.

A day in the life
Each day you will interact with different ADC teams responsible for all aspects of the government data centers. You will prioritize your activities to support data center remediation safety, design, capacity, and availability, focusing on the actions that are most impactful. You will have the opportunity to work on projects locally and globally.

About the team
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

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.

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.