Description

Would you like to help implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the world's most complex technical problems? Do you have a deep passion and desire to engineer and operate the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure to provide a better world for future generations?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) builds and operates some of the largest internet infrastructure on the planet; providing companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS, customers provision compute power, storage, database, and other cloud resources as their business demands them. To meet the growing demand for AWS Services around the globe, we need exceptionally motivated people who are driven by learning and innovation.

If you join us, you'll be part of a world-class team in a dynamic environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain world class experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are passionate about cloud computing, believe that first class service is critical to customer success, and are committed to improvement.

Key job responsibilities

On a typical day engineers might dive deep into understanding the root cause of customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way, consult with top engineers at Amazon, or design and implement new approaches to automate operational issues.

Our systems development engineering roles help develop a broad range of skills. Experienced systems development engineers often have leadership impact on their teams by becoming subject matter experts on several services. They develop, build, deploy, operate, sustain, and grow the services in cloud production environments. They are able to use trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements. They help develop and refine procedures used by their team and internal customers. They are able to develop at a high standard and can deal with new and ambiguous problem domains, while consistently delivering customer impacting change.

A day in the life

Our systems development engineers spend time:

• Automating the world's most advanced cloud computing infrastructure.

• Simplifying and reinventing systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our customers.

• Troubleshooting and debugging problems with existing services and deployments.

• Develop and deploy operational tools to automate processes and reduce operational overhead.

• Studying and learning from industry leading Amazon senior and Principal engineers.

• Coaching, hiring and developing team members.

We own our services and believe in making out-of-hours support as painless as possible.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Thames Valley, POST-BER, GBR

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ 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

• 7+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience

• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)

• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

Preferred Qualifications

• • Hands-on Linux systems administration skills

• • Knowledge of configuration management systems, such as: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or related systems.

• • Experience automating software deployments and following a continuous delivery and deployment model

• • Experience with system analysis and troubleshooting in a Linux environment

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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