Amazons technology business has a history and tradition of leading the world in Webrelated technologies and services. Now with Amazon Web Services (AWS) you have the chance to help individuals and businesses take their computing infrastructures and applications into the Cloud. As a member of the AWS Support team you will be at the forefront of Cloud technologies with interactions with the full breadth of AWS services.
AWS Managed Services is designed to accelerate cloud adoption it simplifies deployment migration and management using automation and machine learning backed up by a dedicated team of Amazon employees. AWS Managed Services provides ongoing management of the AWS infrastructure. It automates common activities such as change requests monitoring patch management security and backup services and provides fulllifecycle services to provision run and support your infrastructure.
We are looking for Operations Engineers to join our Managed Services team based in Sydney. This is an opportunity to join a world class team that is at the forefront of enhancing customers cloud support experience.
Lets talk about you. So hows your OS and networking skills Do you have expertise in troubleshooting Do you know all of the deep corners of the OS Do you know where the performance bottlenecks hides Do you know how to monitor infra resources at scale Do you know how to make the absolute best use of every byte of RAM every CPU cycle
Have you had other System Engineers say I dont believe it when they saw how well a system you tuned was performing in production Do you always like to dabble with the latest OS version to keep systems running with the latest and greatest features Do you like to keep the servers in lock down with the best security and auditing tools to keep intruders away Do you have an insane obsession of making sure your boxes run with 99.999 uptime
Are you getting excited after reading this
We have Good news! Were enhancing our teams with deep OS expertise and you should be on it. Come join uswe work hard have Fun and make History!
Key job responsibilities
As a member of Managed Service team you will be working with our amazing Operation Engineers Lead Engineers and other supporting roles to dive in and tackle the hardest technical challenges who excels working in an agile environment while collaborating with some of the diverse people in the industry who gets excited about owning critical infrastructure services that serve global customers every second of the day! Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:
* Operate the Managed Service platform and collaborate with internal service teams to meet our customers individual needs for their infrastructure and application deployments.
* Troubleshoot application deployments recreate customer issues and build proof of concept applications. Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers individual needs
* Work on critical highly complex customer problems that will span multiple AWS services.
* Help build and maintain Cloud Formation templates and scripts to automate and deploy AWS resources and configuration changes.
* Collaborate and help build utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and your fellow AWS Engineers to operate safely at high speed and wide scale.
* Leverage your daytoday experiences to provide the voice of the customer to internal AWS teams.
* Drive customer communication during critical events.
* Learn and leverage groundbreaking technologies.
* AWS Managed Services is 24/7/365 operations and Operations Engineer role is required to work in flexible shift hrs
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.
Why 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.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employeeled affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing mentorship and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value worklife 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 theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
4 years of network and operating system support experience
4 years of virtualization orchestration and cloud computing (eg. Hypervisors VMware Xen) experience
4 years of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent or 4 years of technical support experience
Experience and technical expertise (operational support) in cloud computing technologies
Experience leading the deployment and operational support of business software at scale or recent handson technology infrastructure network compute storage and virtualization experience
Experience setting up maintaining and coordinating the automated patch and configuration management of production servers.
Experience with SSM to manage resource health automate deployment and maintenance of Linux and Windows servers.
Devops programming/scripting with Ruby Bash and PowerShell. Other languages a bonus.
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement:
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation disability age or other legally protected attributes.
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