Systems Development Engineer, Amazon EKS

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services is looking for Systems Development Engineers to join our growing Amazon Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes (EKS) team. Amazon EKS is our managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy for customers to use Kubernetes without needing to become experts in provisioning and operating Kubernetes. EKS manages time-consuming administrative tasks like setting up, operating, scaling and updating Kubernetes freeing customers up to focus on their applications.

You will be part of an exceptional team moving the needle towards making containers as the next generation compute platform. This is an opportunity to join the team at an early stage to build out the tooling to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing.

You should be someone who enjoys working on solving problems, is customer-centric, and feels strongly not only about operations but also about running systems and software in the real world. The ideal candidate will have progressively stronger experience in distributed systems, Linux/Unix design, networking, and systems engineering. Your responsibilities will include:

· Conduct monitoring and troubleshooting of Kubernetes clusters.
· Deploy new or scale existing systems and software using automated build and deployment tools.
· Configure monitoring/alarming for new and existing systems using automated configuration tools.
· Provide on-call support during assigned periods.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
· 3+ year experience running and maintaining a 24x7 production environment.
· Solid experience scripting in some of the common languages used by system engineers (perl, python, shell, golang).
· 3+ years of solid Unix/Linux system engineering experience.
· Comfortable in a fast-paced, start-up like development environment with passion for building and operating highly-available services.