Systems Engineer, AWS
Core
Operate and engineer systems on a massive scale for AWS foundational services like S3 and EC2, solving complex technical problems and ensuring operational excellence.
Role type
Senior IC Systems Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)
Builds
Compute, Database, Storage, IoT, Platform, and Productivity Apps services for AWS customers
Domain
Cloud computing infrastructure and distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Linux systems administration, networking fundamentals, scripting (Python/Java/Perl/PHP/Ruby/Bash), troubleshooting 24/7 production environments, capacity management, automation
Preferred skills
Configuration management (Puppet/Chef/Ansible), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), network capture, tooling development for large-scale computing
Technologies
Linux, Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Bash/Shell, Puppet, Chef, Ansible
Responsibilities
Troubleshoot root causes of customer issues and metric anomalies, implement Operational Excellence best practices, automate manual processes, maintain software updates, manage service capacity and efficiency
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC