Job opening - SCM Manager at Amazon (Seattle, WA)

Digital Products' SCM/Infrastructure team is looking for a hands-on, passionate, results-oriented, inventive software manager to own, define, build and integrate scalable tools and processes to support a world-class multi-site development organization. Candidates should understand software development for mobile devices as well as for large scale distributed services, thrive in a fast-paced environment, be eager to take on new responsibilities, and have a track record of delivering high quality, mission critical systems.

As the Software Development Manager you will lead a talented and nimble team of engineers to create innovative ways to enable developers to easily and quickly author high quality software. Successful candidates will be obsessed with operational excellence and will be strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of improving efficiency of the development process. Our Digital Products business r! equires creative engineering balanced with high quality and customer focus.

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:

Exhibits excellent judgment

Hires and develops great people

Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)

Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology

Expects and requires innovation of her/his team

Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others

Strong results orientation

Thinks big

Responsibilities

Direct management of engineers, process, quality and efficiency of tools and infrastructure resources.

Work with business and development teams to understand product vision and requirements.

Design, implement and roll out a development en! vironment that leverages integration of developer tools to pro! vide a high-performing ecosystem for continuous delivery (build, test, deployment) that fits with the team's requirements as well as Amazon's long term strategy.

Work with peers and management to understand requirements, priorities and processes and to consistently improve user/developer experience, process efficiency and infrastructure performance while providing 24X7 availability.

Report on status, quality, operations and system performance to management.

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