AWS Media Delivery Specialist, AWS Support Strategic Industries

AWS Media Delivery Specialist, AWS Support Strategic Industries

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an Enterprise Account Engineer who is passionate about helping our largest video customers optimize, operate, and get the best performance out of their streaming media workloads.

Our team builds deep relationships with the top companies in video through which we drive best practices through an architectural and operational lens ensuring our customers are set-up for success. We exemplify Customer Obsession working alongside our customers' engineering and operations teams embedding to become a trusted advisor and team member.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Key job responsibilities
Enterprise Account Engineers must be able to work across many AWS services across media workloads from contribution encoding through origination and content delivery. You will apply both product and domain expertise to assist customers in their key workflows through all phases of architectural specification, development, deployment, and monitoring for ongoing operations. Working in tandem with a Technical Account Manager specializing in media delivery, Enterprise Account Engineers are key to driving long-term success with key enterprise accounts. You will develop deep technical knowledge on the operational aspects of media workflows and leverage that knowledge to provide expert guidance to ensure our customers achieve operational reliability, resiliency, and scalability for their critical live events and other media workloads.

Depending on a customer's needs, you may also work closely with specialized Solutions Architects and members of AWS Professional Services. While this role is not expected to develop software within the AWS services, a software development background will be valuable in helping understand complex customer needs and drive software solutions as well as being able to ideate and innovate in this position. Most importantly, you have to consistently uphold high standards in proactively guiding customers in all aspects of the engagement.

A day in the life
As an Enterprise Account Engineer specializing in media delivery, you will:

1. Act as the primary technical point of contact representing the technical needs of high-value media workflows for key enterprise accounts during live event delivery
2. Work across multiple AWS services including video origination and delivery services to drive well-architected solutions and ensure the consistently high customer experience with overall content delivery performance
3. Interface with customer project managers and technical owners to understand key technical and operations requirements
4. Collaborate with Product Managers to define customer technical requirements, helping to advocate for solutions that drive long-term operational success
5. Collaborate with CloudFront performance teams to drive key customers' success initiatives
6. Oversee video delivery performance by monitoring both customer and service metrics
7. Identify, troubleshoot, mitigate and resolve complex video delivery performance problems
8. Own customer-facing and internal communication during production impacting incidents
9. Work independently with customer engineering and operations teams
10. Build training materials, runbooks, and operational plans to help a key expanding team

About the team
This is a highly specialized team focused on Media Delivery architectures and workloads end-to-end. We work with most of the largest names in Broadcasting, Over-the-Top (OTT), Gaming, Sports, and Media and Entertainment space. We collaborate on complex architectures, maintain a very high bar in design, advisory, and support for our aforementioned customers. This is a fast-paced environment, and to thrive here, you must bring Customer Obsession, a high tendency to innovate and simplify, a high operational bar, and an unbridled passion for media technologies to the table.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of 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.

Why AWS
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.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- 5+ years experience with Content Delivery Networks [CDNs] (e.g AWS CloudFront, Akamai, EdgeCast, Fastly) or commensurate experience with underlying technologies including networking, DNS, HTTP, and/or TCP/IP.
- 5+ years of experience in systems engineering or technical operations support, with some customer-facing responsibilities
- 3+ years of experience (and demonstrated credibility) working in a technical role within a software engineering-focused business
- Ability to travel up to 10%, primarily regionally

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with Cloud Providers, especially Amazon Web Services
- Ability to understand and communicate business and technical needs
- Excellent communication skills including facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to navigate challenging situations in a professional manner with minimal guidance
- Ability to interact with and influence technical personnel at all levels
- 2+ years' software engineering experience
- Familiarity with one or more Linux-based scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash, JavaScript, etc.) or object-oriented programming languages (Java, C++, C#)
- Willingness to work closely with customers during high profile live events, including nights and weekends

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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