Job Description

DESCRIPTION

The AWS Business Continuity (BC) team is looking for creative, curious, and highly motivated Principal to join our team. Working with the BC team and internal customers across AWS, you will develop a strategy to push the program beyond traditional BC practices to something that can match the speed, scale, and innovation of AWS. The ideal candidate has built robust resiliency programs in technical environments at large multinational organizations and found innovative ways to assess, measure and treat resiliency risk. To be successful, you must love to build relationships, have an intense desire to understand how the organization works, and constantly think about how the program can better serve AWS. This is an individual contributor, consulting-like role where you will not only be expected to enhance the business continuity program, but be able to clearly and confidently articulate its value and findings to technical and non-technical business leaders. Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, both physical and logical, and cloud services is preferred.

The AWS BC program is responsible for coordinating resilience activities across all of AWS that are essential to improving our readiness as organization to handle both external and internal disruptions. With a mix of BC SMEs, AWS technical experts, and data analysts, we assess the criticality and resiliency of AWS people, business functions, physical spaces, and internal IT tools. We are ISO22301 certified, but our mission is to raise the bar of resiliency beyond traditional BC expectations. Our program initiatives are regularly being reviewed with Directors and Vice Presidents, and have buy-in across the entire organization.

Key job responsibilities

• Drive the strategy of the business continuity program at AWS
• Introduce and implement unique processes, methodologies, and metrics that align with AWS unique structure and innovative culture
• Align BC program to appropriate certifications and global regulations
• Be a thought leader on the future of business continuity and global regulations around the resilience of cloud computing
• Partner with resilience teams across AWS to develop a narrative around AWS\' end-to-end model of business continuity planning
• Represent AWS continuity with external stakeholders and BC-related conferences and events
• Be ready to work as a member of the BC team in conducting business impact and risk assessments, identify critical services, define recovery objectives, map critical dependencies, and help them document BC plan needs to drive consistency and attestation.

About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon\'s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team values work-life harmony. Availability during the AWS SOC\'s 24/7/365 operation is imperative to maintaining proficiency in this role, and we understand that striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We encourage members of the team to use personal time as needed to cultivate this balance and to promote a productive and well-balanced life- both in and outside of work.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we\'re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of experience implementing and leading business continuity or risk management programs at multi-national, tech-focused companies
• 3+ years of experience creating and managing complex, cross-team programs from strategy through delivery/adoption

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor\'s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent technical experience
• Ability to travel up to 30% of time globally
• Strong interpersonal skills, including excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
• Experience in leading, managing, and delivering projects/programs while meeting deadlines
• Knowledge of cloud service architecture and data center engineering
• Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII), Business Continuity Institute (BCI), or other business continuity professional certification (CBCP+)
• Experience in managing the response to significant disruptive events.
• Familiarity with Disaster Recovery (Information Technology focus)
• Ability to dive deep into data, existing processes, people, and technology challenges in order to identify risks and opportunities
• Meets/exceeds Amazon\'s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon\'s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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