Systems Engineer, AWS

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical degree or related experience
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Experience working in a 24/7 production environment
• Experience in Linux systems administration and/or development
• Experience working in at least two of these languages: Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby or Bash/Shell

Nice to Haves

• Knowledge of configuration management systems, such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or related systems
• Experience in site reliability engineering (SRE), systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration
• Experience in network capture and systems troubleshooting
• Experience building scripts, tooling, and automation for large-scale computing environments

What You'll Be Doing

• Dive deep into understanding the root cause of customer issues
• Investigate why metrics are trending the wrong way
• Consult with senior engineers at Amazon
• Implement Operational Excellence best practices
• Automate manual processes for out-of-hours support

Perks and Benefits

• Be part of delivering disruptive products that are growing rapidly
• Define, build, own, and run a service in a high-growth environment
• Solve unique and first-order problems at a massive scale across many AWS Services
• Learn how to build and operate distributed systems at massive scale
• Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services