DESCRIPTION
The full job description covers all associated skills, previous experience, and any qualifications that applicants are expected to have.
Would you enjoy diving deep into, operating, and improving some of the largest software systems humanity has ever built? Do the challenges that come of driving technical, business, and cultural change to improve the reliability, performance, and efficiency excite you?
The AWS Managed Operations (MO) organization was founded in April 2023, with the objective to reduce operational load and toil through long-term engineering projects.
MO is building the best-in-class engineering and operations team that will own the day-to-day operations for AWS Regions;
improving the availability, reliability, latency, performance and efficiency to operate AWS Regions.
Amazon is looking for highly motivated Senior Systems Engineers who can balance the day-to-day operations of AWS' software systems with long-term software engineering to reduce operational toil.
We need engineers who enjoy constantly learning and diving deep into the wide range of systems and technologies that make up one of the world's largest cloud providers.
A day in the life
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.
If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 9+ years of relevant systems engineering, or systems administration experience using Operating Systems, networking, and storage systems
- 5+ years of Systems Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Enterprise Production experience in Windows / Linux or similar environments
- 3+ years of experience operating in a 24 / 7 production environment.
- 3+ years experience with a scripting language : Perl, Python, Ruby, PowerShell or similar languages
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering or a related discipline
- 15+ years experience with cloud computing technologies
- 6+ years of networking experience
- 6+ years of experience with support procedures and methodologies for production computing environments.
- Development of systems automation in a scripting language : Perl, Python, Ruby, PowerShell or similar languages
- Experience with Agile engineering practices (Scrum, continuous delivery, etc)
- Meets / exceeds Amazon's leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets / exceeds Amazon's functional / technical depth and complexity for this role
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
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