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Contract Manager , AWS Legal

ID: 7434

Type: Full-time

Category: Others

Company Name: Amazon Web Services Singapore Private Limited

Location: SGP, Singapore

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Job Description

Amazon’s Legal Department is looking for a talented Contracts Manager to be based in Singapore to support Amazon Web Services (AWS), a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon.com. AWS is at the forefront of the cloud computing and service industry, providing IT infrastructure services such as on-demand compute capacity, storage, content delivery, database services, artificial intelligence, machine learning, browsers, and more.

This Contracts Manager will support the teams responsible for the full lifecycle of AWS data center infrastructure. This includes contracts spanning design and construction, operation, maintenance, and physical security of AWS data centers and related infrastructure.


Key job responsibilities
• Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a high volume of Amazon contracts across a diverse and expanding scope of data center activities, including general contractor and engineering/design vendor main services agreements, operations, maintenance and security services contracts, work orders, change orders, and ancillary agreements.

• Providing day-to-day legal and commercial advice to business clients on projects, negotiations, vendor management, and internal and external communications.

• Partnering proactively with procurement, finance, engineering, construction, Operations, and security stakeholders to anticipate needs, assess and manage risk, and deliver timely, actionable guidance and support.

• Driving legal and business-facing process improvements that enable scalable, efficient contract management at high volumes, and developing and implementing simplification measures to eliminate repetitive or low risk work.

• Driving reductions in contract cycle times through workflow automation, standardization, and cross-functional process alignment, and championing the adoption of AI tools and legal technology to elevate the quality, speed, and scalability of the contracting function.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
- Experience working in a fast paced, quickly changing or international environment
- Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience in contract drafting, review and negotiation in a corporate legal, law firm, or in-house environment.
- Experience managing a high volume of contracts simultaneously across diverse categories and counterparties.
- A passion for building trust with internal and external stakeholders by being proactive and innovative in solving problems that affect stakeholders and customers.
- A proven ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize competing workloads and maintain quality under pressure.
- A desire to grow professionally as the role’s responsibility grows rapidly with the business.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with construction, design, facilities management, operations, maintenance, or physical security contracts.
- Prior in-house experience supporting global teams at a technology company or large-scale infrastructure organization.
- Experience managing outside counsel engagements, including budget oversight and performance evaluation.
- Proficiency in contract lifecycle management (CLM) platforms or legal operations technology.
- Experience using and evaluating AI-powered legal tools for contract review, analysis, or management.

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Company Information

Company Name: Amazon Web Services Singapore Private Limited

Company Website: https://aws.amazon.com/local/singapore/

Company Address: SGP, Singapore

Amazon Web Services Singapore Private Limited is the Singapore-registered legal entity of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the global cloud infrastructure and platform services organization that is part of the Amazon group of companies. As the local corporate presence for AWS in Singapore, the company supports delivery, sales, technical engagement, training, consulting partnerships, and regulatory/compliance interactions for AWS cloud services within Singapore and the broader Asia Pacific market. The entity functions as the local operating and commercial arm supporting AWS’s cloud activities, enabling organizations in the region to adopt and operate cloud-native and hybrid IT architectures on AWS infrastructure. Core business activities - Provisioning and commercial delivery of cloud infrastructure and platform services through the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region (ap-southeast-1). This includes enabling local customers—enterprises, startups, public sector agencies, and educational institutions—to run workloads on AWS compute, storage, database, networking, analytics, security, machine learning, and developer services. - Local sales, account management, partner management, and professional services coordination to help customers design, migrate, operate, and optimize applications and workloads on AWS. The Singapore entity supports AWS Partner Network (APN) programs and works with regional systems integrators, managed service providers, independent software vendors, and consulting partners to deliver professional services and managed cloud operations. - Technical enablement, training, and certification activities delivered locally or in the region. AWS provides classroom and virtual training, technical workshops, bootcamps, and certification programs through AWS Training and Certification to upskill local technical and business teams on cloud best practices, architectures, and services. - Compliance, security, and trust engagements with local regulators and customers. AWS Singapore facilitates local compliance attestations, data residency discussions, and contractual arrangements needed by regulated industries (finance, healthcare, government) to use AWS cloud services while meeting local legal, privacy, and regulatory requirements. Main products and services Amazon Web Services Singapore Private Limited offers access and commercial arrangements for the broad portfolio of AWS cloud services. These services—available globally and offered to local customers via the Singapore region—include core infrastructure building blocks and higher-level platform services: - Compute: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, including general purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, storage-optimized and accelerated computing instances; AWS Lambda for serverless compute; and container services such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). - Storage and Content Delivery: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for object storage, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) for block storage, Amazon FSx for file systems, and Amazon CloudFront for content delivery and caching. - Databases: Managed database services such as Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for commercial and open-source relational engines, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL), Amazon ElastiCache (in-memory stores), and Amazon Redshift (data warehousing and analytics). - Networking: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Load Balancing, AWS Direct Connect for dedicated network links, and Amazon Route 53 DNS services. - Analytics and Big Data: Services including Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon OpenSearch Service for data processing, analytics, stream processing, and search. - Machine Learning and AI: Amazon SageMaker for model building, training and deployment; pre-built AI services for vision, language, speech, and recommendation; and inference/accelerator capabilities. - Security, Identity and Compliance: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS Shield, AWS WAF, AWS Security Hub and other services to support security, encryption, threat protection and governance. - Developer and Management Tools: AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Systems Manager, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy to support infrastructure-as-code, observability, CI/CD and operational automation. - Migration, Hybrid and Edge Services: AWS Migration Hub, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Outposts (for on-premises AWS infrastructure), and edge services supporting hybrid architectures. Local and regional capabilities AWS’s Singapore presence is anchored by the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region (ap-southeast-1), which provides multiple Availability Zones to support fault-tolerant deployments and data residency requirements for local customers. The Singapore region is a focal point for AWS activities in Southeast Asia and supports a broad range of workloads spanning startups, digital native enterprises, multinational corporations, and public sector organizations. Through local partner ecosystems and AWS-led programs—such as AWS Activate for startups, AWS Public Sector initiatives, and industry-specific competency programs—AWS Singapore helps organizations accelerate cloud adoption, modernize applications, and optimize cost and performance. Customers and use cases AWS Singapore serves a diverse set of customers across industries including financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, media and entertainment, manufacturing, retail, education and the public sector. Common use cases include cloud-native application hosting, disaster recovery and backup, data lake and analytics platforms, high-performance computing, AI/ML workloads, web and mobile backends, and migration of enterprise systems to the cloud. Enterprise posture and ecosystem As part of the global AWS organization, the Singapore legal entity participates in the wider AWS ecosystem—delivering product updates, regional expansions, partner certifications, professional services offerings and shared security/compliance frameworks. AWS maintains an extensive set of compliance reports and certifications (e.g., ISO, SOC, PCI, regional data protection standards) applicable to services offered in the Singapore region to help customers meet regulatory requirements. This description summarizes the core role of Amazon Web Services Singapore Private Limited as the local AWS corporate presence facilitating commercial access to AWS cloud infrastructure and platform offerings in Singapore and the surrounding Asia Pacific region, supporting sales, technical enablement, partner engagement, and regulatory/compliance interactions for customers adopting AWS services.
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