Joint Operations Lead

Amazon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud services provider in the UK is looking for a candidate to own Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery processes across an AWS region. The ideal applicant will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, manage operational documentation, and drive continuous improvement. This role requires a strong background in roadmap strategy development and execution, as well as experience working with engineering teams. Interested candidates should be prepared to lead and influence business strategies effectively.

Qualifications

• Experience owning and driving roadmap strategy.
• Experience developing and executing technical roadmaps.
• Experience working directly with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Day to day ownership of business continuity and operational posture.
• Work with stakeholders to define operational processes.
• Ensure all operational documentation is maintained.

Skills

Roadmap strategy ownership

Technical roadmap execution

Collaboration with engineering teams

Cross-functional program management

Business data interpretation

Leadership strategy influence

Project management expertise

KPI/ SLA definition

Education

Graduate Engineering or equivalent

Job description

This role will have ownership of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery and Joint Operations across an AWS region. This will involve working with a wide range of stakeholders including customers and engineering teams to ensure that operational processes and procedures are created defined and applied.

Key job responsibilities

• Day to day ownership of BCDR and the operational posture within an AWS region
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to help define and document operational processes. Attend operational meetings as required to enable the coordination and visibility of high impact work.
• Ensure all required tooling runbooks wikis and operational documentation are up to date and maintained to a high standard
• Ownership of BCDR contractual requirements
• Work with peer regions to ensure global alignment on best practices and develop efficiencies through economies of scale where appropriate
• Be an operational excellence advocate across teams driving a high bar across change control and leading the continuous improvement of BCDR and operational effectiveness
• Act as the owner for the overall operational posture of the region defining KPIs and reporting region health to senior leaders

About the team

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Key Skills

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• Experience owning / driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience developing and executing / delivering product and technical roadmaps
• Experience working directly with engineering teams
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
• Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
• Building strategic plans by collecting analyzing and identifying customers major milestones. Working backwards from those milestones to build AWS capability and solution roadmaps that internal teams will utilize to inform resource and delivery plans.
• Experience in project management disciplines including scope schedule budget quality along with risk and critical path management
• Experience defining KPIs / SLAs used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

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Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1