Director, System Development, Region Services, AWS

2 months ago


London, United Kingdom AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) Full time
Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. To meet the growing demand for AWS services around the globe, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. For this role, we are looking for a dynamic, organized, self-starting Systems Development Director to lead our operations/engineering organization for new AWS region builds.

Does the challenge of leading and driving large, cross-organizational initiatives for one of the world’s largest cloud providers excite you? Do you enjoy working in an entrepreneurial environment, engaging directly with stakeholders, diving into complex technical problems, and innovating to deliver solutions? Are you passionate about all aspects of team building and talent development? If so, we would love to speak with you.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with AWS infrastructure and product teams to design, deliver, operate and automate utility computing services for new AWS regions. You will assess risks, anticipate issues, overcome technical obstacles, make high-judgement trade-offs, and balance business needs with technical constraints.

To be successful in this role, you’ll need a deep understanding of distributed system design, delivery, operations and automation. Your development management expertise and operational excellence will influence your team’s decisions and drive secure and scalable solutions. And as an AWS leader, you will need to be passionate about innovating and iterating region build and operations models, in order to deliver great customer experiences.

By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and concept at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us

Key job responsibilities
The role is the single threaded leader for Systems Development and Operations in the AWS UK region build team. The role works to set and execute the strategic vision for operations teams in collaboration with product, sales, security and service teams. The role requires a detailed understanding and ability to drive critical aspects of operations. The leader in this role should be customer obsessed, with ability to balance long-term vision with near-term customer needs. The role will lead strategic initiatives and provide support to operations and development teams in the UK.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Substantial experience building and leading engineering teams that design and deliver large-scale distributed systems
- Experience in software development, systems engineering and automation, under UNIX/Linux
- Demonstrated ability to hire and retain top performers, and lead a high performing team
- Decisive, confident, and experienced with influencing others
- Proven coaching and leadership skills including evidence of successful succession planning
- Strong communication and negotiation skills, demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders
- Ability to work at all levels in the organisation
- Experience delivering successfully, at pace

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- MS/PhD degree in Computer Science
- Experience managing engineering teams
- Experience of problem-solving, debugging and large-scale event management, with customer-facing services
- Successful track record in working on large cross-functional, cross-organisational transformation efforts
- Experience working as part of a global team, across multiple time zones



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