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# Senior Technical Program Manager, EC2 (Core Compute)

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Computing Platforms, Cloud Computing, Hypervisor, Software Engineering, Xen Servers, Information Technology, Bare Metal, Vmware
- **Published:** July 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4e4b741a24e9b166

## About the Role

* Experience in technical product or program management
 * Experience working directly with engineering teams
 * Experience in software development
 * Experience in technical program management working directly with software engineering teams
 * Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
 * Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent, * Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management
 * Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
 * Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
 * Experience with virtualization, orchestration and cloud computing (eg. Hypervisors, VMware, Xen)
 * Experience in capacity planning, operations planning, business analysis or equivalent

## Description

* Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional technical programs from concept through fleet-wide deployment across compute platform instance families including C, M, R, X, Flex, and T
 * Own Nitro System programs spanning hypervisor evolution, virtualization enhancements, confidential computing, and security hardening initiatives
 * Track customer commitments and capacity forecasting for large-scale workloads, working with customer-facing teams to ensure the right capacity is available
 * Drive operational improvement programs that reduce toil and improve fleet sustainability at massive global scale
 * Respond to emergent and unplanned activities with speed and rigor, mobilizing cross-functional teams as needed
 * Build strategic roadmaps, synthesize technical and business tradeoffs into clear recommendations, and present to senior leadership
 * Influence without direct authority across engineering, product, supply chain, and finance organizations
 * Collaborate cross-timezone with US-based teams from Berlin

A day in the life
You will operate across multiple engineering teams without direct reports, earning trust through technical credibility and consistent delivery. Your work includes leading program syncs across time zones, reviewing engineering milestones for Nitro System and compute platform programs, identifying risks before they become blockers, and preparing leadership updates that translate complex technical status into clear business impact. This role requires regular cross-timezone collaboration with US-based teams, including late evening meeting participation. Your stakeholders span engineering managers, directors, and senior leaders across AWS. Your customers are every team and every workload that runs on EC2.

About the team
EC2 Core Compute builds and operates the AWS Nitro System and EC2 core compute platforms. The Nitro System is the purpose-built combination of dedicated hardware, a lightweight hypervisor, and a hardware root of trust that powers every modern EC2 instance - delivering bare-metal-equivalent performance with a locked-down security model. We work across processor generations and instance families to deliver performance, reliability, and cost efficiency at a scale that few organizations in the world can match. Our engineering teams are headquartered across Berlin and Seattle as our main hubs, with additional teams in other locations worldwide.


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