Systems Engineer

Who you are

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required
• Candidate must be a national of an EU member state and residing in the EU to operate the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
• AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying
• Experience in Linux OS and network troubleshooting, or experience in networking administration and troubleshooting
• Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
• This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state
• Able to execute standard operating procedures and following operational best practices
• Experience in Systems engineering, site reliability engineering, building and operating systems at scale
• Knowledge or experience operating 24x7 high-availability, distributed software applications, performance tuning software applications and optimizing fleet utilization and monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar)
• Knowledge or experience with Infrastructure as Code, (such as CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Generative AI technologies, including automated deployment, configuration management, continuous integration workflows, prompt engineering, model deployment, and AI-powered automation tools

What the job involves

• AWS has successfully launched the European Sovereign Cloud (ESC), marking a significant development in Utility Computing (UC)
• To spearhead this initiative, we are actively seeking experienced systems engineers with a strong background in cloud operations
• As part of the AWS Managed Operations team, you will play a pivotal role in building, operating and evolving operations and development teams dedicated to delivering high-availability AWS services, including EC2, S3, Dynamo, Lambda, and Bedrock, exclusively for EU customers
• Your responsibilities will encompass overseeing the ongoing operations and expansion of the ESC, working closely with global AWS teams, and influencing the evolution of AWS services and technology
• A typical day in this role involves collaborating with technology leaders, contributing to the enhancement of day-to-day operations, and ensuring continuous improvements in availability, reliability, latency, performance, and efficiency of the ESC
• The overarching goal is to deliver scalable services and ensure a high-availability experience for EU customers
• If you are an experienced professional ready for a challenging and impactful opportunity, we invite you to join our efforts in operating and scaling a best-in-class development engineering and operations team that aligns with AWS' commitment to customer satisfaction and continual innovation
• Employees will participate in an On-Call rota
• You’ll spend a majority of your time operating and improving one of the largest software systems
• Over the course of a week, you will review the operational health of the services in your team’s care, and as soon as you figure out why there was an anomaly, you write up an actionable bug report
• As a responsible engineer, you’ve learned never to make changes to production systems without a plan, so you reviewed then executed changes following a change management process to one of the production systems in your care
• Later in the week, you help to resolve your team’s backlog of operational issues
• You round off the week by writing a cool script that you shared with your team which helps get to root cause faster of a hard problem that you diagnosed earlier