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?
AWS Operations Management (AWSOM) Team is looking for highly motivated 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.
Key job responsibilities
- Building and implementing scalable mechanisms to support our Operations as a Service (OaaS) offering
- Drive metrics improvements and continuous improvements of support process
- Automates processes at scale, reduces costs, and eliminates the operational burden that slows down product delivery
A day in the life
AWS Operations Management (AWSOM) team's mission is to launch a new offering that will drive security, availability, performance and efficiency improvements to operate AWS Regions globally. We relentlessly remove operational toil through automation to run day-to-day operations at scale. We increase collaboration, bridge development and operations while prioritizing the needs of our customers.
AWSOM team's vision is to own the operational responsibility for a collection of services in AWS commercial and sovereign regions to free up service teams time to continue innovating quickly for our customers. AWSOM will be responsible for service availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management and monitoring.
AWSOM will also directly influence the experience of our customers through recommending to service teams to build resilience and reliability into the products at the forefront.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of site reliability engineering (SRE), systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration experience
- 2+ years of Linux experience
- Experience working in 24/7 production environment
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
- 5+ years of site reliability engineering (SRE), systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration experience
- Experience in any of the following: Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Bash, Shell or equivalent
- Experience designing and developing scripts to automate operational burdens and reviewing scripting changes to ensure they meet the standards for maintainability, scalability and security
- Knowledge of TCP/IP and networking protocols such as HTTP and DNS
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, VA, Herndon - 104,500.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually