ADC Engineer, Region Services - Aperture Team (ADC WorkSpaces)

Job Description

Do you have a passion for innovation and building technologies that make large-scale clouds more reliable, efficient, and scalable? Would you like to work within the most advanced and scaled clouds that support the most critical workloads for the US Intelligence and Defense communities?

Do you want to build automation that will influence the national security and defense mission agency partners of AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an ADC Engineer to take the lead of solving some of the toughest operational challenges in some of the most sensitive and mission critical clouds.

WorkSpaces is leading the cloud desktop revolution and we are looking for engineers who know how to design and maintain highly scalable software services. We care deeply about the user experience our customers have when they interact with their WorkSpace. This includes how long it takes to launch, how long it takes to log in, and how the in-session interaction feels. We must provide a secure and highly available WorkSpace to meet expectations.

The ideal candidate for this role will be motivated by building the solutions and tools to handle these challenges at cloud scale. The candidate will have a strong technical background, be detail driven, and have excellent problem solving abilities. You will be comfortable designing, building, deploying, and operating.

You will be responsible for systems functionality, performance, and configurations issues. You will demonstrate sound knowledge of Unix and Scripting concepts and theory, and have experience participating in systems deployment and support. It is important that you can earn trust of your peers and stakeholders through your body of work and day to day interactions. This role requires ambition, thinking big, self-motivation, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and startup-like environment.

If you've ever wanted to show the impact one motivated engineer can have and you want to work in an environment that will expose you to the absolute bleeding-edge of what's possible technologically, this is the position for you. The candidate should be open to new challenges, be extremely good at multi-tasking, prioritization, possess innovative, creative, and self-directed qualities, and be a great team player. If you’re a customer-focused Systems Engineer who would like to contribute to a critical success story, we would love to hear from you!

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS / SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS / SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Key job responsibilities

• Drive the stability and sustainability of these next-generation systems and discover innovative ways to scale and operate them reliably as we expand.
• Collaborate with systems and software engineers to create proactive engineering mechanisms that will enable your team to manage the health of a number of distributed specialized Linux server fleets and the software stacks that run on them.
• Deploy and monitor the systems and automation to ensure that regional tooling is operating optimally.
• Utilize trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks, tools and processes to continuously improve systems.
• Challenge and be challenged, to create and to innovate. We are inventing and supporting real things for real people – not presentations. This must excite you.
• Be a builder. We pride ourselves on being multitalented and flexible, and we look for the same in our potential candidates.

A day in the life

WorkSpaces is leading the cloud desktop revolution and we are looking for engineers who know how to design and maintain highly scalable software services. We care deeply about the user experience our customers have when they interact with their WorkSpace. This includes how long it takes to launch, how long it takes to log in, and how the in-session interaction feels.

We must provide a secure and highly available WorkSpace to meet expectations. The right candidate for this role will be motivated by building the solutions and tools to handle these challenges at cloud scale.

About the team

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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- Associate's degree or above, or Cloud+ or GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years experience with cloud computing technologies.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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