Systems Engineer Route 53 DNS Services

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words were the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers storage networking power and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain and were looking for talented people who want to help.

Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Managing millions of DNS queries answering them in subx ms building software that deploys to thousands of hosts achieving 100 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 with Route 53 DNS Services at the AWS core.

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 including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities
The Route 53 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.

Youll be part of a world class team in a fastpaced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a startup.

No prior cloud experience is required but rather this is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale and gain top notch experience in cloud computing learning AWS from the inside out!

We hire exceptional people and we recognise the importance of coaching others. Upon joining the Route 53 team every employee is paired with a peer buddy who will help you to quickly come up to speed in understanding the technology were building the tools we use and the business problems were trying to solve. We also have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location job family and job level.

A day in the life
On a typical day Engineers might:
Drive the design and implementation of new services
Use your Linux and networking skills to troubleshoot innovate fixes and workarounds
Dive deep to root cause a customer issue
Investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way
Consult with the top engineers at Amazon
Discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues
Implement automation to scale operational efficiencies

The team has the unique perspective of operating all DNS services. This enables our team to drive cross organization initiatives to remove operational hurdles optimize software delivery and remove bottle necks felt by all of AWS. Engineers on this diverse team enjoy diving deep into root causes of issues automating manual tasks and continually raising the bar to improve the customer experience.


About the team
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Bachelors Degree in Systems Engineering Computer Science or related field or relevant work experience
Working knowledge of Linux system administration
Experience of systems automation using BASH Python Perl etc
Experience of network fundamentals (DNS DHCP TCP/IP routing switching HTTP)
Good troubleshooting skills at all levels from application to network to host

Exposure to cloud computing concepts and design considerations
Experience in a production environment
Experience of monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch Datadog Grafana Elastic or similar)

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