Amazon
Incident Management Engineer (Portuguese/English bilingual), Incident Detection and Response, AWS Incident Detection and Response
Cape Town, Western Cape, ZAF
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- 27 Sept 2026
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Amazon has built a reputation for excellence with a mission to be the earth's most customer-centric company a company that customers from all over the globe will recognize value and trust for both our products and our service. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is carrying on that tradition while leading the world in cloud technologies.
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.
The AWS Incident Detection and Response team is part of the ASPIRE organisation within AWS Support and is dedicated to offering eligible AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive engagement and incident management to reduce the potential for failure and to accelerate recovery of critical workloads from disruption. We achieve these objectives by working closely with customers to develop runbooks and response plans customized to the context of each workload onboarded to the service. Onboarded workloads are monitored 24x7 by a team of Incident Management Engineers (IMEs) to detect and engage customers on a call bridge within 5 minutes of a critical alarm.
ABOUT YOU Incident Management Engineers have a broad skill set with demonstrated career progression and a proven track record of delivering results. The successful candidate will possess strong analytical acumen solid technology experience superb business judgment strategic account ownership and a propensity to dive deep to solve complex problems. You will also have a passion for creating/providing a world class experience for our customers. The candidate must understand the competitive and industry landscape and must have the leadership presence and communication skills to effectively work with customers at all levels of their organization. You must be a self-starter and able to execute at both a tactical and strategic level - with a strong attention to detail. This is a global role that requires excellent written and verbal communication skills and a passion and desire for leading the resolution of critical incidents. Your decisions are not only fundamental to helping protect our most critical customers but will help maintain the health of AWS customers worldwide.
Finally you are passionate about technology with a desire to learn more and do more with AWS.
- Key job responsibilities
- Every day will bring new and exciting challenges that include elements of:
- Drive the resolution of large scale customer impacting incidents as part of a team rotation Drive critical complex customer escalations in situations that are sometimes technically challenging in collaboration with Engineering Teams.
- Provide critical incident response/management (including leading calls with internal/external participants) for customer's critical workloads Contribute to Problem Records for customers Conduct continuous real-time proactive monitoring of customer metrics Prioritize manage and own emerging and developing customer issues from start to finish Monitor and manage communications during high impact events via relevant channels Collaborate with key stakeholders across AWS to improve the customer experience and develop mechanisms that support operational excellence Lead projects and teams to drive operational improvements Create and review documentation; design/influence new standard operating procedures Identify and troubleshoot recurring platform issues and own projects to drive improvements Mentor peers in your areas of technical and operational strength Perform other duties as required by the organization
- A day in the life
- AWS Support is looking for a leader with a strong background in Incident Management and customer ownership to be there during the moments that matter for our most critical customers. We are looking for an Incident Management Engineer to join our team to provide incident response and account ownership.
Please note as a follow-the-sun organisation IMEs work the core hours of 7am-3pm UTC. Successful applicants will be required to work some weekends (Sunday to Thursday or Tuesday to Saturday) and public holidays.
- About the team
- 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.
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. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
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
- - 3+ years demonstrable Major Incident / Problem Manager Experience for organizations that run mission critical applications
- - Experience communicating and delivering presentations to customers, stakeholders, and/or teammates
- - 2+ years of technical support, or 3+ years of systems engineering experience
Preferred qualifications
- - Demonstrated critical thinking and logical problem solving skills
- - Experience driving collaborative projects from conception to delivery
- - Familiarity operating or designing distributed architectures with the ability to correlate system behaviors based on known inter-dependencies
- - Ability to review complex technical details regarding ongoing issues/events and convey the key details to senior stakeholders to facilitate real-time decision making
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.
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 hiri
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