Cloud Systems Engineer - Data Management Data Center Infrastructure Engineering DCIE Amazon at Whole Foods Market

We are looking for a talented AWS experienced Cloud System Engineer that is passionate about data management replication and data stores of all kinds. Do you have experience in some or all of: AWS RDS Microsoft SQL Server DynamoDB MySQL Redshift Oracle Perhaps you have a bit of development experience If you do and youre looking for a position loaded with multiple technologies and interesting challenges you may have found what youre looking for.

Key job responsibilities
Design and implement cloud database solutions that meet high availability performance and security requirements
Lead database migration projects from onpremises to cloud environments
Create and optimize database maintenance and operational procedures
Develop automation solutions for database operations and monitoring
Provide technical leadership in database architecture and best practices
Participate in oncall rotations and incident response
Mentor team members on cloud database technologies and practices
A forwardlooking attitude that keeps you aware of the latest in database and replication technologies.


A day in the life
This team is part of Amazon World Wide Groceries supporting Whole Foods Market Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go. We have a number of cloud migration projects are in flight. This role can be involved with a wide range of activities from planning and executing application/data migrations to AWS managing legacy SQL Servers and other on prem environments to helping teams architect best in class data management strategies and solutions.

About the team
The Datacenter Infrastructure Engineering team is part of the Amazon World Wide Grocery Stores. We are a centralized support team for the DBAs Window Operating Systems and VMWare environments at the Whole Foods Market (WFM) data centers and we ensure WFM teams a successful in their on prem responsibilities migrations to AWS and native cloud environments.

5 years of systems engineering or equivalent experience
Deep technical knowledge of data engineering tech stacks such as relational databases data pipelines NoSQL transformations etc.
Experience migrating databases from onprem to cloud or running in a hybrid cloud environment
AWS Associate Level certification(s)
Can solve significantly complex systems engineering problems; able to deconstruct these into simple solutions
Excellent diagnostician: anticipates and mitigates patterns that affect the performance reliability or availability of systems to drive automation that simplifies workloads that scale operations.
Proven ability to educate others on maintenance characteristics runtime properties and infrastructure of team systems.
Proficient in a broad range of technologies (hardware software networking operating systems) and how they interact with one another in complex systems.
Ability to self direct and split your time between design architecture and critical operations based on where you will have the greatest impact
Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. Python Bash PowerShell)
Strong understanding of system security and data protection requirements


AWS Professional Level Certification(s) or Specialty certification(s)
Knowledge of AWS database migration software and technologies (DMS SCT)
Deep knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server
Experience with software development methodologies and programming languages such as Java or C#
Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally
Attention to details proactive selfstarter
You are a trusted part of the technical leadership of an organization
Track record of driving operational excellence initiatives
Experience with performance tuning and optimization of database systems


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