System Engineer, AWS

• Extensive experience with AWS technologies (aws.amazon.com) including database, storage and compute services
• Extensive support engineer experience on AWS Cloud and the deployment frameworks
• Extensive experience in Systems Engineering, Systems Administration, DevOps, and security best practises
• Experience managing and implementing system health, performance monitoring, performing capacity planning, and process improvement/automation.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, providing virtualized infrastructure,
storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world. AWS runs
a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale. Businesses, from start-ups
to enterprises, run their operations and applications on Amazon’s multi-tenant infrastructure.

AWS is seeking a Systems Engineer to join the team with a strong background in AWS Cloud, Software Deployment services, and Linux to raise our already high operational excellence bar. The successful Systems Engineer will be part of the team that provides oversight and governance to the services that connect AWS regions of differing security classifications.

AWS is delivering exciting and complex distributed systems, and the Systems Engineer is
essential to how AWS operate and secure these.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion.
We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.
We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences,
including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity)
conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which
remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Key job responsibilities

• Automate complex requirements to streamline implementation and deployment tasks
• Work closely with our Security/Systems/Software Engineering teams to assist with operations and troubleshooting
• Collaborate with higher tier escalation engineers/resolvers and our customers.
• Participate in all phases of the development and deployment of a large distributed system
• Provide operability and performance perspectives on all aspects of the system
• Use your strong experience in AWS Cloud deployments to automate and operate services
• Delve into customer issues and investigate issues
• Extensive experience with scripting languages, with particular focus on Python, Java, Bash/Shell, or PowerShell.
• Extensive experience building scripts, tooling, and automation for large-scale computing environments
• Experience with Networking fundamentals or Internet protocols such as (TCP/IP, UDP, SSL, DNS, HTTP/S)
• Experience with security best practices in tool development and access controls
• Highly organized and able to coordinate with other team members.

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