Senior Tech Ops Leader — AWS Rack Manufacturing

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 166,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Salt Lake City is seeking a Principal Tech Operations Engineer to lead and scale regional hardware manufacturing. You will own multi vendor programs, drive supplier onboarding, and oversee capacity planning and automation initiatives.

In this senior role, you will coordinate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Hardware Engineering, Risk Management and Finance to deliver scalable, high‑quality outcomes and ensure cost‑effective production at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or other STEM field.
• 5+ years of hands-on systems engineering and administrative work in networking, storage systems, operating systems experience.
• Experience with Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, or experience in material handling equipment (MHE) or automation environments.
• Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis, or experience delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives/projects.
• Experience with data analytics platforms (Power BI, Python, SQL, Tableau), or experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results.
• 5+ years of working with external suppliers experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the 3 to 5 year manufacturing operations strategy, anticipating future capacity needs, identifying critical capability gaps, and prioritizing technology investments that position the region for sustained growth.
• Lead transformational programs that fundamentally reshape manufacturing capability, including advanced automation deployment, robotics integration, and lights out manufacturing initiatives.
• Drive manufacturing agility through flexible line configurations, rapid changeover capabilities, and multi product qualification strategies that enable the network to respond to evolving customer demand and technology transitions.
• Own capital expenditure planning for manufacturing operations, developing rigorous business cases that quantify returns on equipment investments, facility expansions, and technology upgrades.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate operational risks across the manufacturing network, including single points of failure, capacity constraints, systemic quality issues, and workforce availability challenges before they impact delivery.
• Develop high quality strategic documents and investment proposals that influence manufacturing priorities at the executive level, articulating trade offs, quantifying risks, and presenting clear recommendations that drive action.

Skills

Systems engineering

Six Sigma / Lean

External suppliers management

Program management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial/Mechanical Engineering or STEM

Tools

Power BI

Python

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Salt Lake City is seeking a Principal Tech Operations Engineer to lead and scale regional hardware manufacturing. You will own multi vendor programs, drive supplier onboarding, and oversee capacity planning and automation initiatives.

In this senior role, you will coordinate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Hardware Engineering, Risk Management and Finance to deliver scalable, high‑quality outcomes and ensure cost‑effective production at scale.