Senior Technical Incident Manager

Amazon Inc

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Location
Redmond, WA
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$148,700–$201,200 / yr
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18 days ago
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Amazon Inc. is the world''s largest e-commerce and cloud computing company, operating the Amazon marketplace, AWS cloud platform, Prime subscription services, Alexa voice AI, and logistics infrastructure. Industry: E-Commerce & Cloud Computing

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TL;DR · Senior Technical Incident Manager

Sr Technical Incident Manager, Amazon Leo serves as the primary accountable call leader for high-severity events affecting the low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. This coordination and leadership role focuses on managing the incident lifecycle from declaration to resolution by aligning engineering efforts with customer communications, legal requirements, and security protocols. The successful candidate will sequence work across cross-functional teams, manage technical bridge calls, perform root cause analysis, and design simulated incident exercises. Key responsibilities include identifying early warning signals, auditing monitoring coverage, and improving runbooks. Required competencies include extensive experience in major incident management for mission-critical services, technical program management, and operational excellence practices such as ITIL, change management, DevOps, or SRE. The role requires the ability to lead senior personnel under pressure while ensuring all regulatory obligations are met during service disruptions.

What you'll do

  • Serve as the single accountable leader for high-severity events from initial declaration through final resolution and closure.
  • Assess and adjust event severity levels based on real-time customer impact and business requirements.
  • Manage incident bridges to align engineering efforts with customer communication teams on a single source of truth.
  • Sequence cross-functional tasks across engineering, operations, legal, and security teams to ensure rapid service restoration.
  • Track and execute all regulatory notification obligations and customer communications alongside technical mitigation efforts.
  • Proactively investigate early warning signals to identify and mitigate potential issues before they impact customers.
  • Lead the post-event loop by ensuring root cause analysis and corrective actions are completed and tracked.
  • Design, conduct, and score simulated incident exercises to train partner teams on response protocols.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.
  • 5+ years of technical product or program management experience.
  • 7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams.
  • 5+ years of technical program management experience specifically working with software engineering teams.
  • 5+ years of major incident or problem management experience for mission-critical, customer-facing services.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to provide updates for both engineers and executive stakeholders.
  • Working knowledge of operational excellence practices such as ITIL, change management, DevOps, or SRE.
  • Export control laws and regulations, candidates.

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