Job Description
Job ID: Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd
AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You'll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.
AWS Managed Services (AMS) is designed to accelerate cloud adoption; it simplifies deployment, migration, and management using automation and machine learning, backed up by a dedicated team of Amazon employees. AMS provides ongoing management of the AWS infrastructure. It automates common activities such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services, and provides full-lifecycle services to provision, run, and support your infrastructure.
We are looking for someone that is about being at the forefront of transformational technology and assisting enterprise customers take advantage of a growing set of AWS services and features to run their mission-critical applications.
Key job responsibilities
Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:
- Owned the direction of the team. This includes defining strategic goals for the team. You will be participating in defining, planning, and documenting key projects and initiatives. You will be tracking the progress of initiative outcomes against goals and ensuring that the team remains unblocked and focused.
- Own all facets of performance and career management for the team. You will be expected to mentor all members in order to maintain a well-rounded, world class organization. This includes project management, quality audits and coordination of training sessions as well as day to day oversight of the team. You will own and be accountable for the output and performance of your team.
- Lead team/s to provide customers with exceptional outcomes during times of customer needs and drive positive customer the outcomes. You will be driving initiatives regarding improvements to existing tools & processes and providing feedback on new practices & procedures in order to scale with the rapid expansion of the AWS services and customer base.
- Developing and promoting governance models supporting the consistent use of cloud technologies aligned to institutional strategies and policies.
- Understand customer business drivers and strategies, architectures, cloud adoption roadmaps, operating models, KPI, to measure and monitor benefits realization.
- Engage with Director and C-Level executives to understand business needs and craft strategies to ensure their goals are met
- Champion and advocate for customer requirements within AWS (e.g. feature requests) and evangelize
- Drive strategic collaboration with other AWS business units to integrate AMS solutions into existing customer architectures and transformation journeys. Capitalise on opportunities to embed AMS into existing sales motions to drive AMS attach rates.
- Evangelize and represent AMS in internal and external forums and events, ensuring proficiency in the various Support offerings, delivery capabilities, and their impact on customer success.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS 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.
Why AWS?
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.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.
- 3+ years of team management experience
- Proven track record of growing managed services business through cross-functional collaboration, new offering/solution definition and integration with sales teams.
- Experience in Managed Service provider - managing teams delivering Managed Services to customers, IT Delivery experience working in a customer facing role with a high level of accountability.
- Hands on experience leading large-scale cloud based IT transformation projects
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- AWS Certifications
- Masters/MBA degree
- Experience and Certification in ITIL and/or Dev Ops
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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