SYS Admin - S3 and Glacier, Simple Storage and Glacier team ( S3G)

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 85,000

Job description

SYS Admin - S3 and Glacier, Simple Storage and Glacier team ( S3G)

Job ID: 2918116 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Managing trillions of objects in storage, building software that deploys to tens of thousands of hosts, achieving 99.999999999% (you didn’t read that wrong, that’s 11 nines!) durability. These are just a few of the numbers that give you a sense of the scale of the exciting problems you will find every day working in Simple Storage Service (S3) and Glacier.

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. To meet the growing demand for AWS Services around the globe, we need exceptionally motivated people who are driven by learning and innovation.

The Region Services S3 and Glacier Engineering team are looking for talented engineers who are motivated to solve complex challenges, yet are not constrained by “how things are usually done” and are willing to decompose and reinvent systems, processes and tools. If you possess that rare mix of depth in Operations, Networking, and Systems Engineering then we are waiting for your application.

Amazon has a fast-paced environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.” On a “typical” day, systems engineers might deep dive to root cause a customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way, consult with the top engineers at Amazon, or discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues.

Key job responsibilities

Our Senior Systems Engineers are considered technical leaders for their team and become subject matter experts in multiple services. They work efficiently and routinely deliver the right things with limited guidance. They use technology to solve complex problems and improve services and features for their team. They understand how their work impacts multiple teams and can take a project from an undefined problem to a scheduled delivery, applying appropriate technologies and industry systems-engineering best practices.

Our Senior Systems Engineers identify when implementations are not highly available, performant, secure, stable, maintainable, or have defects; and are able to determine short- and long-term mitigations. They have a depth and breadth of understanding in multiple areas of technology and they are excellent diagnosticians. They utilize their Linux expertise to troubleshoot, innovate fixes and workarounds, keep software up-to-date and provide data and metrics that help manage the capacity and efficiency of services.

Our Senior Systems Engineers lead team design, scoping, and prioritization discussions. They understand how technical decisions impact their team, and other teams’ services and recommend opportunities and solutions for these problems. They optimize and/or automate team processes, ensuring they meet organization goals. They lead implementation reviews (e.g., designs, code, operational readiness, deployment plans, system changes, etc.). They anticipate and mitigate patterns that affect the performance, reliability, or availability of their team(s) systems to create automation that simplifies workloads that scale operations.

A day in the life

On a “typical” day Engineers might:

1. Drive the design and implementation of new services
2. Use your Linux skills to troubleshoot, innovate fixes and workarounds
3. Dive deep to root cause a customer issue
4. Investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way
5. Consult with the top engineers at Amazon
6. Discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues
7. Implement automation to scale operational efficiencies

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Advanced knowledge in Linux system administration
• Significant experience of systems automation using BASH, Python, Perl, etc.
• Significant experience of network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, switching, HTTP)
• Excellent troubleshooting skills at all levels, from application to network to host
• Experience writing technical documents, project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience of building and operating systems at scale
• Advanced knowledge of configuration management systems, such as: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or related systems
• Significant experience of monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar)

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