Overview Job Description: Data Center Manager for the world’s biggest Cloud Infrastructure.
About You You will be a proven manager with experience managing teams of high performers. You will have the ability to refine and develop processes to optimise operational excellence in every area of your role. You will be able to drive performance levels to achieve the pace we build and operate our Data Centers at. You will have previous experience in Data Centers, either building or managing (or both) along with exposure to developing great relationships with both internal teams and external vendors. You will also have a passion for technology along with a desire to be the best at your job every day!
About The Role As a Data Center Manager in Amazon, you will get to manage the world’s largest Cloud Computing Infrastructure. We encounter interesting, challenging & complex problems every day, being a technical manager in Amazon means that you can innovate to solve these issues and help drive Operations Excellence in all areas of your role.
Responsibilities Managing and developing teams of engineers, providing both technical and leadership expertise and ensuring highest levels of performance.
Maintaining existing co-located and in-house Data Centers
Helping build and bring online new Data Centers
Constantly improving all our processes and procedures. We believe there is nothing we cannot improve
Assisting & managing relationships with external vendors & contractors
Liaising with internal teams & management groups
Ensuring we adhere to and exceed local Health & Safety standards in all our Data Centers
Creating and maintaining metrics on all aspects of our Data Centers and utilising those metrics to drive positive changes
Assisting in implementing service methodologies including incident management, problem management, change management, capacity management, etc.
About Us "Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History". AWS S3 web service recently accepted its 1 trillionth object, currently accepting more than 40,000 objects every second on a daily basis. We think this is really cool and want to expand our cloud to meet our customers continued needs. We are the most Customer Centric Company in the world and will stop at nothing to meet our customers demands. We have proven this business model a success for many years and are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals to take us to the next level. We are expanding at unseen rates, more than doubling our worldwide CloudFront co-location Data Centers in the last 12 months, and expecting to exceed that amount again in the coming 12 months. We are also constantly building brand new Data Centers all around the world with more coming online every few months. We are building some of the largest distributed systems in the world, and we need smart people to help plan and put the pieces together. We are obsessed with Operational Excellence and strive to improve everything we do. We also want you to progress your career, so will give you the tools to focus on your next desired role and then help you reach it, this is part of our ethos.
Qualifications An engineering degree or equivalent
5+ years of relevant engineering experience managing large scale services
At least 3 years building strong, successful technical teams in a similar culture
High degree of organization and detail-orientation
Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Proven track record of success in delivering complex projects
Prior ownership of the operation of a mission-critical team and/or product
Ability to consistently deliver results despite competing priorities and distractions
Technical depth to pass at least one of our Network Engineer, Systems Engineer or Developer Support Engineer skill set
Appropriate Security and Safety awareness
Project Management Experience
Extensive OE and or Agile experience
Capacity planning and budgetary experience
If you are interested in solving the engineering challenges of building the world’s largest Cloud Infrastructure, we want to speak to you!
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