
Jair Garcia
@jairgarcia
Director of Engineering at AWS, shaping enterprise cloud architecture and delivering a 23-week Amazon Connect modernization.
What I'm looking for
At AWS (Amazon), I manage enterprise engagements for financial-services clients, owning architecture decisions, delivery roadmaps and risk calls. I designed an AWS Landing Zone using Control Tower, Organizations, IAM and guardrails, and delivered an Amazon Connect modernization.
At INTEL, I owned cloud platform architecture for CI/CD, ingress and feature-management services, and grew a distributed engineering organization across four regions. I delivered $6.9M in infrastructure cost optimization, sustained 99.95%+ availability and reduced MTTR by 25% through automated remediation.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Manage a ~$590K USD portfolio of concurrent enterprise engagements, owning architecture decisions, delivery roadmaps and risk calls for financial-services clients. Own a ~$265K USD AWS Landing Zone design using Control Tower, Organizations, IAM and guardrails; delivered an Amazon Connect modernization across a 23-week, 3,454-hour build.
Sr. Manager, Operations and Continuous Improvement
AUDIBLE (Amazon)
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025 (3 months)
Led operational triage and backlog reduction across engineering teams, cutting outstanding requests by 35% through risk-based prioritization. Designed intake workflows and tooling with SLAs and KPIs built into delivery, giving leaders clearer demand and execution signals.
Owned the architecture and cloud platform behind CI/CD, ingress and feature-management services built for multi-region growth, with security and disaster-recovery baked in. Set 6–12 month technical roadmaps tied to outcomes; drove Terraform policy guardrails, release governance and hardened ingress patterns, staying hands-on in design reviews.
Directed support and SRE operations for high-volume financial-services and payments platforms serving Tier-1 banks with 16M+ monthly transactions. Deployed security and compliance baselines plus observability across distributed AWS infrastructure, owning incident response and service reviews.
Built and scaled a global engineering organization to 60 professionals across 4 global regions, supporting mission-critical data-center engineering and platform services. Established DevOps, IaC automation and incident-response playbooks that removed toil and improved delivery velocity.
Network Architecture and Monitoring
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PRINCE2, BI and Process Integration
Essity (SCA)
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Automated Reporting and Logistics KPIs
NEXTEL
Developed automated reporting and logistics KPIs.
CCNA, CRM Development and Workflow Automation
Unified Networks
Worked on CCNA, CRM development, and workflow automation.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
EBC
Executive MBA, Business Administration
2019 - 2021
Executive MBA program completed from 2019 to 2021.
UVM
Postgraduate, Process Engineering
2015 - 2018
Postgraduate studies in Process Engineering from 2015 to 2018.
IPN
Bachelor of Science, Computer Systems
2011 - 2015
Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems from 2011 to 2015.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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