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.
The Managed Scaling team within the Data Processing Services organization is responsible for building, operating and maintaining the public APIs, Control Plane infrastructure and scaling algorithms that provide tuning and the best price-performance when running analytics and ML workloads on top of EC2 and EKS compute. This includes all components related to ingesting, storing and analyzing telemetry required to perform cluster and application scaling decisions. This team is responsible for building features on top of existing AWS offerings such as EMR on top of EC2 and EKS clusters, particularly when it comes to running Apache Spark workloads.
We're looking for an engineering technical leader who is both passionate and thrilled by the opportunity to dive deep in the space of resource management, demand tuning, and scaling analytics applications. You'll help shape the technology, product and business by building enhancements that impact some of the largest AWS customers. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise, strong skills in building and refining mechanisms to drive goals/initiatives, and passion for helping team members grow.
Our team is committed to building and operating the most secure, easy and cost-effective services to run analytics and ML workloads using Amazon EC2 and Amazon EKS compute environments. Security, compliance, service availability, performance, accurate tracking of resource usage and billing is a shared responsibility across the team and their components, audited and governed by our weekly operational and business review mechanisms.
Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:
• Lead engineering teams to translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
• Be a thought partner by collaborating with other AWS teams in delivering joint goals
• Deliver systems and features with a high note on security and quality
• Own the software development process end-to-end, including: working with engineers and product managers to develop requirements; designing, architecting, planning, implementing, and testing new systems and features; deploying, and operating the production EMR systems.
About the team
About AWS
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