Support Engineer III

Amazon Inc.; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 121,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Unified Operations Engineer to act as a senior technical expert and principal customer advisor across AWS services.

You will lead resolution of complex, multi-service incidents and craft strategies that drive adoption, operational excellence, and business value for customers. You will leverage deep cloud expertise to guide customers, act as a Cloud Ambassador, and collaborate with teams to keep environments healthy and resilient.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in systems administration, engineering or technical IT/cloud operations support.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent, or 3+ years of technical support.
• Experience with three or more of Compute, Storage, Networking, CDN, Databases, DevOps, Big Data & Analytics, Security, or App Development.
• Customer-facing technical lead or advisor experience.
• Proven ability to discuss incidents, trade-offs and risks with senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading cross-team technical work and AI-enabled initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead resolution of critical, complex customer problems spanning multiple AWS services.
• Act as principal technical advisor, crafting strategies to drive AWS adoption.
• Represent AWS in customer environments and discuss incidents with senior leadership.
• Provide guidance to plan and build solutions using best practices for healthy, resilient environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to drive issues to resolution.
• Mentor team members and participate in hiring processes.
• Lead cross-team efforts to deliver unified cloud solutions.

Skills

Customer-facing leadership

Cloud operations

Troubleshooting multi-service

AI/ML knowledge

Incident response

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

EC2

S3

DynamoDB

RDS

Lambda

CloudFront

IoT

Job description

Job ID: 10604250 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. To get there, we build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions. We create end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box, making complex things easy and hard things possible, with no cloud experience required. We start with customers who embrace the future and build bridges to meet the rest where they are. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction, and we are looking for builders who share that mindset.

As a Unified Operations Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical expert and principal customer advisor across the full breadth of AWS services. This role combines expert-level technical troubleshooting with strategic customer engagement — you will lead resolution of complex, multi-service issues while serving as the "voice of the customer," crafting and executing strategies that drive adoption, operational excellence, and business value for your customers.

You will leverage deep expertise across cloud technologies to help customers succeed at scale. You will act as a Cloud Ambassador across AWS products, providing customers with strategic technical guidance, advocacy, and best-practice solutions to keep their AWS environments operationally healthy and resilient.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead resolution of critical, highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services, applying expert-level troubleshooting techniques to provide tailored solutions, and diving deep into root cause analysis.
• Serve as the principal technical advisor for customers, proactively crafting and executing strategies to drive AWS adoption and use of services including EC2, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront CDN, IoT, and many more.
• Effectively represent AWS within customer environments, driving discussions with senior leadership regarding incidents, architectural trade-offs, support strategies, and risk management.
• Provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices and proactively keep customers’ AWS environments operationally healthy and resilient.
• Leverage customer relationships to understand business/operational needs and technical challenges, helping customers achieve the greatest value from AWS.
• Provide feedback to internal AWS teams on how to improve services and identify patterns across your customer portfolio to proactively prevent issues.
• Drive initiatives that improve support-related processes and customer experience, including tutorials, how-to videos, technical articles, and trainings.
• Collaborate with internal engineering and service teams to see complex issues through to resolution.
• Continuously develop technical skills across groundbreaking cloud technologies and professional competencies.
• Act as interviewer in hiring processes and coach/mentor team members across both technical and customer‑facing disciplines.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point in your domain for complex, large‑scale issues affecting customers’ production systems.
• Lead cross‑team technical efforts for customers, coordinating across multiple AWS service teams to deliver unified solutions.
• Help customers test their response plans through game days and disaster recovery exercises.
• Design tools, patterns, and review methods that other engineers adopt beyond your own customers.

A day in the life Your day will blend expert technical problem‑solving with strategic customer advisory. You may start the morning leading resolution of a critical multi‑service incident, coordinating across engineering and service teams to drive root cause analysis and deliver a tailored solution. Later, you could be conducting a proactive operational health review for a customer, applying the AWS Well‑Architected Framework to identify risks and recommend improvements. You will drive discussions with senior customer leadership on trade‑offs, support strategies, and long‑term cloud roadmaps — all while developing content and mentoring team members that elevate the broader organization.

AWS Support is a customer‑facing global organization that provides technical support and strategic guidance to customers worldwide. As a member of this team, you will be at the forefront of transformational cloud technology, operating on a follow‑the‑sun model. You will support a global list of companies and developers — from innovative startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — helping them leverage a growing set of AWS services and features to run their mission‑critical applications.

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of systems administrator, engineering or technical IT/cloud operations support role experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent, or 3+ years of technical support experience
• Experience with operational parameters and troubleshooting for three (3) or more of the following: Compute, Storage, Networking, CDN, Databases, DevOps, Big Data & Analytics, Security, or Application Development in a distributed systems environment
• Demonstrated experience in a customer‑facing environment as a technical lead or advisor
• Proven ability to drive discussions with senior technical and business stakeholders regarding incidents, trade‑offs, and risk management
• Experience leading technical work across teams, such as incident response, migrations, or customer engagements
• Experience building with AI and AI agents in daily engineering work

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of operating systems, hardware, storage, network, security, database administration, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
• Understanding of the AWS Well‑Architected Framework pillars and ability to apply them to customer architectures, implementations, and solutions
• Experience applying technical or operational expertise to identify, balance trade‑offs, and solve difficult challenges
• Experience with scripting languages and coding skills in one (1) or more of the following: Python, Ruby, C/C++/C#, Node.js, Java, or PHP
• Knowledge of security technology and concepts (Authentication, Authorization, Single Sign‑On, Cryptography, etc.)
• Experience in at least one of these technology areas: DevOps, Serverless, Software Development and Design, CI/CD, AI/ML, Storage, Networking, or Databases
• Experience with virtualization, orchestration, and cloud computing (e.g., Hypervisors, VMware, Xen)
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• AWS Certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer, or specialty certifications)
• Experience managing incidents for business‑critical systems in a 24x7 environment, including leading post‑incident reviews
• Experience working inside customer teams as a forward‑deployed engineer, solutions engineer, or consultant

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

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