Systems Engineer II AWS Operations Management AWSOM

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

The AWS Managed Operations (MO) organization was founded in April 2023 with the objective to reduce operational load and toil through longterm engineering projects. MO is building the bestinclass engineering and operations team that will own the daytoday operations for AWS Regions; improving the availability reliability latency performance and efficiency to operate AWS regions.

Amazon is looking for highly motivated Systems Engineers who can balance the daytoday operations of AWS software systems with longterm 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 worlds largest cloud providers.

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A day in the life
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About AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Utility Computing (UC)

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS.

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About the team
AWS Operations Management (AWSOM) teams 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 daytoday operations at scale. We increase collaboration bridge development and operations while prioritizing the needs of our customers.

AWSOM teams vision is to own the operational responsibility for all Utility Compute (UC) 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.

3 years of Systems Engineering DevOps Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Enterprise Production experience in Linux or similar environments
3 years of operating in a 24/7 production environment
3 years of relevant systems engineering or systems administration experience using Linux networking and storage systems
1 years experience with a scripting language: Python Perl Shell Bash Ruby PowerShell or similar languages

3 years with cloud computing technologies
3 years of networking experience
2 years with support procedures and methodologies for production computing environments.
Development of systems automation in a scripting language: Perl Python Ruby or similar languages

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