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.
The AWS Infrastructure Central Operations organization is seeking an eager, organized, and technically experienced Support Engineer to join the Repair team focused on supporting the AWS global Data Center Community through the improvement of tooling efficiency and repair experience. We have high standards for our contributions and employees and our eagerness to drive positive change is continuous.
As a Support Engineer with Central Operations Repair, you will work with partner teams, user stories, and hardware repair data to drive strategic improvements. You will manage feature and region User Acceptance Testing incoming requests and partner with your team to ensure testing is thorough, defects are properly identified and communicated, and that all documentation maintains high standards. You will stay up to date on applicable data center operation tooling in order to provide impactful feedback on both defects and areas of improvement before features are released. You will work directly with the various service owners and hardware design teams to collaborate on hardware repair workflow instructions. This will include authoring instructions to align with operation capability and ensure clear communication of repair steps. You will be reviewing runbooks and workflow data to collaborate with repair instruction requestors to drive operational improvements and support the needs of specific hardware. You demonstrate excellent judgment when making decisions. You clearly communicate with stakeholders and partner teams. You maintain high standards in documentation and are detail focused.
Key job responsibilities
Complete detailed testing on new features and new region tooling
Document and communicate necessary changes before feature or tooling release to end users
Maintain expert understanding of operational repair tooling
Drive operational efficiency improvements through instruction modifications and creation
Initiate instruction improvements based on customer feedback and repair data.
Collaborate with service and hardware teams to determine effective repair approaches
Author repair workflow instructions and make updates
Review peer authored new instructions to bar raise before release to end users.
A day in the life
We provide support engineering and technical program management to improve productivity and operational excellence of DCO worldwide to meet infrastructure capacity demands of service owners. We handle the identification and resolution of systemic issues that cause non-actionable and unplanned DCO work. We use high volume strategies to scale successful repairs, such as problem management, process improvements, and automation, in order to bridge business needs that fall between Operational Planning (OP) cycles.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Why AWS
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Work/Life Balance
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship and Career Growth
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- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- 2+ years of technical support experience
- Experience troubleshooting & maintaining hardware & software RAID
- Experience scripting in modern program languages
- Experience working with device technologies under development, familiarity with flashing firmware, basic device debugging and familiarity with reading/pulling device logs
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