AWS Media Delivery Specialist, AWS Support Strategic IndustriesJob ID: 2833538 | Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL (Irish Branch)
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 responsibilitiesEnterprise 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 lifeAs an Enterprise Account Engineer specializing in media delivery, you will:
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.Work across multiple AWS services including video origination and delivery services to drive well-architected solutions and ensure the consistently high customers experience with overall content delivery performance.Interface with customer project managers and technical owners to understand key technical and operations requirements.Collaborate with Product Managers to define customer technical requirements, helping to advocate for solutions that drive long-term operational success.Collaborate with CloudFront performance teams to drive key customers' success initiatives.Oversee video delivery performance by monitoring both customer and service metrics.Identify, troubleshoot, mitigate and resolve complex video delivery performance problems.Own customer-facing and internal communication during production impacting incidents.Work independently with customer engineering and operations teams.Build training materials, runbooks, and operational plans to help a key expanding team.About the teamThis 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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONSBachelor'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 QUALIFICATIONSExperience 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 language (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.
Posted: November 7, 2024 (Updated about 4 hours ago)
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