Software Development Manager, Capacity Deployment, GCNA Capacity Engineering

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

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's network is a key differentiator for Amazon Cloud Computing and Web
Services (AWS), enabling the global operation of thousands of applications
across hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide. The AWS Networking team
develops and operates the network platform for all of Amazon including
e-commerce products and cloud computing solutions. This platform is
industry-leading for its efficiency, throughput and reliability, and it is
critical to the success of hundreds of thousands of AWS customers.

The Software Development Manager of capacity deployment will deliver systems and
software to scale capacity and enable AWS’s network connectivity experience that
sets the global standard for AWS network performance, availability, security and
cost for our customers. The manager will be part of a team supporting delivery
of Amazon network connectivity with a core focus on backbone, internet and
optical related capacity delivery systems. The manager will own the software
deployment eco-system for all capacity related operations. Amazon.com is looking
for a highly motivated Software Development Manager to help build and scale one
of the world's largest networks.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of highly qualified network, system and software development engineers to automate and optimize capacity scaling across a few domains including the backbone, internet, fiber and optical line system delivery.
• Be responsible for end to end ownership of software systems, including owning the software vision and roadmap across the capacity engineering team, aligning to best practices, business and customer requirements
• Grow and manage software and network development engineers responsible for developing and maintaining software
• Be a technical and solution oriented leader managing according to agile software development lifecycle methodologies delivering high quality software and a development process that allows for rapid iterations
• Show business and technical judgement to accelerate time to market of releases, minimizing technical debt while incrementally moving services towards the vision.
• Ensure that software and tooling delivered are aligned with capacity deployment operations with ability to execute at scale
• Continuously promote safe delivery through change control and operational excellence initiatives
• Focus and manage services using data, metrics and dashboarding techniques
• Collaborate with internal customers, partner teams and other stakeholders on deliveries and initiatives

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed