3: That's what we all come to work every day for. It's not just turning the knobs
7: it's really kind of inventing your way out of problems that are
12: at a scale that nobody else has.
15: Day in and day out we ask ourselves the question how can we do this better?
19: My name is Sunil Nirmal and I work for a team called AWS Trusted Advisor.
24: We build a service that analyzes a customer's AWS resources and provides them with
30: options on how to prevent security issues and how to have cost savings. I'm Gary Gross I'm the Director of Software Engineering
37: Training and Business Operations for AWS Support.
39: We're the front line so these roles are the ones are going to be building and delivering the software working directly with our software engineers and
45: setting the roadmap the strategy
47: how we execute on our goals and ultimately
49: delivering for customers. So it's mission-critical.
52: A lot of our work too is working across the AWS services because these checks which are basically
57: areas of best practices or improvement require a lot of collaboration with the different service teams like EC2
64: DynamoDB, S3, RDS all the rest of them.
67: I'm Alex, I'm a Developer a part of
71: AWS Support, specifically the Trusted Advisor team. I feel myself growing
75: both as a leader and my technical chops on a day to day basis
79: The leaders are genuinely interested in our development.
83: I'm working on challenging problems every day
86: and I'm working with a group of super talented people who genuinely care about our customers
92: I'm Wynter, I'm a Software Developer for AWS Support.
95: I probably spend 40 percent of my job focused on hiring
99: retention and people development. If you've had a chance to read our Amazon leadership principles
102: they're probably the most important things that drive who were trying to hire. We're looking for an Amazonian heart. Basic software development
108: chops are a must for our software developers and for our data scientists a good background and machine learning
113: but beyond that I think it's really important to be interested in invested in the customer experience.
119: Focus on people focus on our customers have fun to make history
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