Amazon · 4 months ago
Senior Systems Engineer, AWS Managed Operations (MO) AWSOM Team
Herndon, Virginia, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$144K/yr - $249K/yr
8+ years expAmazon is looking for highly motivated Senior Systems Engineers to join the AWS Managed Operations (MO) organization, which aims to improve the reliability, performance, and efficiency of AWS Regions. The role involves balancing day-to-day operations with long-term engineering projects to reduce operational toil and enhance the overall performance of AWS services.
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Responsibilities
Drive technical, business, and cultural change to improve reliability, performance, and efficiency
Support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS
Own the operational responsibility for all Utility Compute (UC) services in AWS commercial and sovereign regions
Remove operational toil through automation to run day-to-day operations at scale
Increase collaboration and bridge development and operations while prioritizing customer needs
Recommend service teams to build resilience and reliability into products
Qualification
Required
8+ 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' experience operating in a 24/7 production environment
3+ years experience with a scripting language: Perl, Python, Ruby, PowerShell or similar languages
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering or a related discipline
6+ years of networking experience
6+ years' 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)
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$8.11BKey Investors
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