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Incident Management Engineer; Spanish​/English bilingual), Incident Detection and Response

Job in Cape Town, 7100, South Africa
Listing for: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-04
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Incident Management Engineer (Spanish/English bilingual), Incident Detection and Response

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 customised 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 a 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 and providing a world‑class experience for our customers.

The candidate must understand the competitive and industry landscape and have the leadership presence and communication skills to effectively work with customers at all levels of their organisation. 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 to lead 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.

About

The Role

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. In this position, you will play a pivotal role in providing communication, emergency response, technical resolver engagement and incident management for our customers.

As a follow‑the‑sun organisation, IMEs work the core hours of 9am‑5pm AEST. Successful applicants will be required to work some weekends (Sunday to Thursday, or Tuesday to Saturday) and public holidays.

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
  • Prioritise, 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 organisation
Basic Qualifications
  • Speak, write, and read fluently in Spanish
  • 4+ years of technical support experience
  • 4+ years of communicating with and presenting to executive and senior audiences
  • 3+ years demonstrable Major Incident / Problem Manager Experience for organisations that run mission‑critical applications
  • 4+ years of experience in Support Engineering, Network Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or…
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