Executive Support Eng IV (RED)
About The Position
Executive Support Engineers work with Amazon Senior Leadership teams to support their IT services. Our customers require timely, accurate, and professional support to minimize downtime and disruption. A successful Executive Support Engineer excels in a fast-paced, team environment and possesses excellent communication skills. They have a high degree of technical aptitude over a large scope of software, hardware, and networking disciplines, and know how to convey that understanding to customers with all levels of technical knowledge. As an Executive Support Engineer, you will use your technical knowhow and specialized skills to drive solutions across multiple service owners, collaborate to quickly build unique solutions, and improve technology offerings that support all Amazonians. You are able to manage large projects with minimal guidance, quickly resolve customer issues in time of crisis and You are actively expanding your scope of knowledge by learning about software design patterns, data structures, AWS technologies and distributed systems concepts.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software development, or 4+ years of technical support experience
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience troubleshooting and documenting findings
- Experience dealing effectively with customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of distributed applications/enterprise applications
- Knowledge of UNIX/Linux operating system
- Experience in agile/scrum or related collaborative workflow
- Experience scripting in modern program languages
- Experience driving collaborative projects from conception to delivery
Responsibilities
- Troubleshoot difficult IT problems without SOPs.
- Collaborate with internal teams and stakeholders to execute projects and resolve customer issues.
- Lead continuous improvement efforts.
- Audit the quality of work performed and provide constructive feedback.
- Automate manual tasks; create/improve small tools that help make team operations more efficient.
- Be the first point of escalation.
- Own customer issues and drive to completion.
- Participate in hiring, training and development of others.
- Maintain an elevated attention to detail while managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
- On-call for high-severity issues outside standard hours.
- Work with the team onsite in our corporate offices Monday-Friday.
- Ability to travel up to 30%.
Benefits
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
