Systems Engineer

Who you are

• Experience in site reliability engineering (SRE), systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration
• Experience working with Linux
• Experience in systems engineering
• Experience in any of the following: Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Bash, Shell or equivalent
• Knowledge of TCP/IP and networking protocols such as HTTP and DNS
• Experience designing and developing scripts to automate operational burdens and reviewing scripting changes to ensure they meet the standards for maintainability, scalability and security
• Experience working in 24/7 production environment
• Experience with service-oriented architecture and web services

What the job involves

• Are you interested in working with the latest cloud computing technologies and becoming a core part of the largest cloud infrastructure on the planet
• AWS is seeking a Systems Engineer to build and operate services for our customers, to automate service operations and deployment methods, and provide mentoring for junior team members
• They will be working in a large-scale, high availability environment, building and operating critical Cryptography, Access and Identity services for our customers
• This exciting role is designed for someone with a strong engineering background and a passion for driving efficiency, quality, and process improvements within our service operations
• As a Systems Engineer at Amazon you will utilize your Linux skills to troubleshoot, innovate fixes and workarounds, keep software up-to-date and provide data and metrics that help manage the capacity and efficiency of our services
• You will draw on your networking knowledge to identity and troubleshoot network connectivity issues
• You will recognize opportunities to build solutions to reduce manual toil across our organization
• Our Systems Engineering roles enable engineers to develop a broad range of skills; our engineers take ownership and gain knowledge across a complex technology stack
• Learn how to build and operate distributed systems at massive scale
• Be a catalyst to deliver truly disruptive products that are growing rapidly
• Solve unique and first-order problems at massive-scale across many AWS Services
• Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services
• Amazon has a collaborative, purposeful and enthusiastic environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.”
• Our Systems Engineers are expected to be leaders in their teams by becoming subject matter experts on multiple AWS services
• They develop, build, deploy, operate, sustain and grow their services in cloud production environments
• They are able to utilize trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements
• They help develop and refine procedures used by their team and internal customers
• They are able to develop at a high standard and can deal with new and ambiguous problem domains while consistently delivering customer impacting change
• On a typical day engineers might work to build infrastructure and services for our customers. They will dive deep into understanding the root cause of a customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way and consult with senior engineers at Amazon. We own our services and believe in making out-of-hours support as painless as possible. To achieve this, we implement Operational Excellence best practices and strive to automate manual processes