Operator Tools empowers Amazon's software builders to safely and reliably operate their services in production by providing them with tools that enforce change safety and enable operational insights with minimal friction. Our customers rely on us to understand the impact of changes they make to their services and underlying infrastructure, regardless of the scale of their deployment.
A software builder becomes an operator when taken away from building and deploying code. Specifically, this includes on-call and incident response, retrospectives, remediation plans, taking corrective actions, setting up metrics and monitoring, operational readiness verification, and application safety and security reviews and improvements. Because of the business-critical nature of these actions, engineering teams are looking for ways to streamline these processes without causing more operational load. Our builders want to operate their services with minimal interruption and friction, and to avoid needless complexity and distraction. This enables them to do more of what they love: build for their team’s customers.
We are looking for a seasoned product manager to help shape the operational experience to provide a streamlined, integrated, and safe experience that benefits all of Amazon and reduces operational overhead for our builders. You will work on the product strategy for creating this operator experience that measurably improves software builders’ experience at Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
The variability of operational responsibilities at Amazon means you will need to understand the landscape and challenges that face our software builders when they assume the role of an operator.
* You will work cross-functionally with engineers, other product managers, program managers, and senior leaders. The team is at the center of Amazon-wide initiatives that limits human access to infrastructure and ensures safe changes to production systems.
* Lead execution of the product strategy with a high-level of discipline and engagement with the development teams.
* Drive adoption growth of rolled out solutions, assess open opportunities to reduce operator toil.
* Work with the team that shapes these programs to create a low friction operational experience.
* You will partner closely with the Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX) User Experience team of UX researchers and designers to understand the customer journey to design products and features that power the experiences.
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
About the team
We empower Amazon's software builders to safely and reliably operate their services in production by providing them with tools that enforce change safety and enable operational insights with minimal friction. We aim to provide our customers with efficient mechanisms to perform critical operational functions so that they can get back to building products that delight their customers.
What do we mean by "the best software builder experience in the world"? It means that Amazon is the best place in the world for software builders to build great things for customers. Software builders and builder leaders know it from the insights they see—and feel it in the experience of their everyday work. Others in the industry know it—and want to come to Amazon to experience it.
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