Job Abstract

Are you passionate about leading a high-impact DevOps team?

If so we'd like to give you the opportunity to take a key role in the ADC Non-Relational and Emerging Databases team. Join us! We are the DevOps team responsible for the Big Data Analytics and Database products for specialized regions. Our Amazon Web Services teams are innovating new ways of building massively scalable distributed systems and delivering the next generation of cloud computing with AWS offerings like Managed Blockchain, Neptune, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, and ElastiCache.

We hold high standards for our computer systems and the services we deliver to our customers: our systems are highly secure, highly reliable, highly available, all while functioning at massive scale; our employees are smart, passionate about the cloud, motivated to serve customers, and fun to work with. Come help us build a state-of-the-art system!

A successful candidate will be a hands-on manager with an established background in developing and operating platforms and services, developing and hiring extraordinary talent, have strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a dynamic fast paced environment.

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Key job responsibilities
* Build a best-in-class engineering team that delivers excellent results
* Design and develop state-of-the-art approaches to solving complex and ambiguous problems
* Cultivate engineering and operational excellence through metrics and continuous learning
* Mentor and grow others to take on increasingly higher responsibilities
* Help raise the bar on technical excellence
* Show thought leadership
* Communicate proficiently and concisely to different audiences

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

Herndon, VA, USA

- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- 5+ years of professional software development or systems engineering experience
- 3+ years of experience managing software or systems engineering teams
- 2+ years of experience working with engineering teams to deliver software requiring coordination between multiple teams in disperse functional groups
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above.

- Success delivering products/services in a high-growth environment, exhibiting strong ability to identify and solve ambiguous customer-focused problems
- Ability to take raw product requirements and create system architectures and designs to bring them to life.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and perceptions
- High attention to detail with proven ability to juggle multiple, conflicting priorities simultaneously and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- You have a track record of delivering technical programs, projects, and products in a highly technical multi-team environment
- Excellent written, spoken, and listening communication skills

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.