Offers “Amazon”

Expires soon Amazon

AWS Systems Engineer

  • Seattle (King)
  • Design / Civil engineering / Industrial engineering

Job description



DESCRIPTION

Amazon.com has been rated one of the most admired company in the US, #1 in Innovation and # 1 in Customer Service. Additionally, Amazon's technology business has a history and growing tradition of leading the world in Web-related technologies and services. Now, with Amazon Web Services (AWS), you have the opportunity to help individuals and businesses take their computing infrastructure and applications into the Cloud. AWS has gained a reputation for innovation with a fast pace release cycle delivering hundreds of features a year, and AWS Support is one of the largest and fastest growing AWS business units.

Don't be confused by the name. We are a highly technical, innovative organization revolutionizing the way customers engage and seek help from AWS. Our customers include very large Enterprises (e.g. NASDAQ, Adobe, Kellogg's, Unilever); Public Sector (e.g. NASA JPL, Stanford) as well as fast growing businesses and internet companies (e.g. Netflix, Airbnb). We will redefine the word “support” and lead the industry with best in class technology. The AWS Support organization is global with team members in 20 locations around the world. The organization is a self-standing business with revenue and P&L responsibility.

Who We Need

We are looking for a smart, enthusiastic, and creative engineers with a solid background in solving hard problems that span the software development, systems engineering and systems security disciplines. As a member of the a DevOps team, you will be charged with adapting, scaling and operating all of the software use to run the AWS support business. You will be a member of a team of highly motivated and talented team of systems developers and systems engineers helping to shape the future of Support technologies both within isolated AWS regions and in the AWS public regions.

Diving deeper into the role, on a day to day basis you will be working with services like Trusted Advisor and the Support Case Management System to adapt their software to the unique challenge of operation in isolation. You will lead the ground up installation of major software systems, troubleshoot hard problems using the skills of a Linux expert and automate everything you can find. You will work on developing the teams own tools to enable you to scale as new isolated regions are added. You will also build relationships with the commercial software development teams to ensure a seamless customer experience across all regions.

If you share our obsession for customers and ensuring that AWS exceeds their expectation on every interaction. If you have a passion for leading the design decisions that making an organization as large as AWS support successful at scale. If you want to touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of support customers worldwide, shaping their personal experience with AWS. This is the job for you!

Desired profile



BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Minimum of 3 years' experience in systems engineering, operations, technical support, and the maintenance of large-scale systems.
· Minimum of 1 year of experience in Agile/Scrum or related collaborative workflow
· Minimum of 3 years' experience with distributed operational health and performance monitoring systems
· Minimum of 3 years' experience in Linux operating system configuration and networking
· A degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field or at 5 years' relevant experience in a large-scale technical environment
· This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

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