System Engineer, Messaging and Streaming Team

Amazon.com, Inc
Reading, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 64K

Job location

Reading, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Systems Engineering
Bash
Cloud Computing
Linux
DNS
Perl
HTTP Secure
Python
Routing
Ruby
Data Streaming
TCP/IP
Datadog
Grafana
Information Technology
Cloudwatch

Job description

  • Work proactively to solve potential problems and inefficiencies. Communicate clearly and collaborate with others to deliver results with minimal supervision.
  • Participating in 24/7 on-call rotation to troubleshoot high severity issues
  • Analysing dashboards and investigating metrics with the vision for improvements
  • Create and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and runbooks for documentation
  • Discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues, assess risks and develop creative solutions.
  • Develop strategies for resolving identified problems to prevent future occurrences
  • Assist others in the team

Requirements

  • Experience writing scripts from scratch for automating manual tasks (BASH, Python, Perl, Ruby or similar)
  • Solid background in Linux. Familiarity with in depth troubleshooting and ability to solve complex technical problems
  • Knowledge of network fundamentals (DNS, UDP, TCP/IP, HTTP (s), routing, switching)
  • Experience owning services that are secure, scalable, reliable and efficient. Can identify multiple operational and security risks and then resolve, mitigate and/or escalate them, * Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or relevant work experience
  • Exposure to cloud computing concepts and design considerations
  • Experience in a 24x7 production environment
  • Experience of monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar)

Benefits & conditions

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.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth

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.

Work/Life Balance

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.

About the company

Would you like to help implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the most complex technical problems? Are you excited by the prospect of building and running the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure to provide a better world for future generations? Amazon Web Services (AWS) builds and operates some of the largest internet infrastructure on the planet; providing companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS, customers provision compute power, storage, database, and other cloud resources as their business demands them. To meet the growing demand for AWS Services around the globe, we need exceptionally motivated people who are driven by learning and innovation. 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. If you join us you'll be part of a world-class team in a dynamic environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. As a member of the team providing EC2 services you will be delivering foundational capability that benefits all customers! This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain world class experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are passionate about cloud computing, believe that first class service is critical to customer success, and are committed to improvement. Top Reasons To Join Our Team * Be a catalyst to deliver a truly disruptive products that are growing rapidly * Solve unique and first-order problems at massive-scale across many AWS Services * Learn how to build and operate distributed systems at massive scale * Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services, Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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