We are seeking a passionate, innovative, results-oriented Systems Engineer to help evolve and maintain 1P/3P tooling and raise the bar on security, availability, and scalability. We are looking for an individual that thrives in a collaborative culture, playing a key role in operational excellence and efficiency, security compliance, and beyond.
This is an excellent opportunity to join AWS's world class technical team working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.
Key job responsibilities
As a Systems Engineer you will:
- Build/maintain 1P/3P infrastructure and security standards and ensure that the systems adhere to these standards
- Identify and resolve issues, automate and improve repetitive processes, and work closely with the development team to identify operational need
- Become intimately familiar with the architecture of our systems, and be responsible for diving deep into code, while developing solutions for our customers and services
- Drive prioritization of operational issues, and drive automation design & scaling requirements in support of the wider organization.
A day in the life
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About the team
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with AWS technologies and services or industry certification (AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS SysOps Admin)
- Experience working with business intelligence systems and architecture, such as Tableau or Power BI
- Experience working in a fast-paced DevOps environment (familiarity with DevOps concepts and lifecycle)
- Strong Windows/Linux debugging and systems analysis skills to be able to identify and quickly resolve/mitigate issues
- Experience in designing and scaling the large-scale distributed systems
- Experience working in critical systems and production on-call environment
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a team
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience with networking fundamentals including hands-on experience with load balancers, switches, routers, etc.
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