We are looking for a talented AWS experienced Cloud System Engineer that is passionate about building cloud platforms with focus on infrastructure and storage management (EBS EFS SGW local zones AWS backups etc.). 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 infrastructure and storage solutions that meet high availability performance and security requirements
Lead infrastructure migration projects from onpremises to cloud environments
Create and optimize storage and backup maintenance and operational procedures
Develop automation solutions for storage and backup operations and monitoring
Provide technical leadership in cloud infrastructure storage and backup 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 infrastructure and storage.
A day in the life
Enable app teams in their cloud migration journey
Build infrastructure storage backup enablers/solutions in AWS to enable app teams to build and deliver solutions in AWS
Participate in Sprint ceremonies and clearly communicate status blockers to stakeholders
Collaborate with partnering teams to identify opportunities to automate infrastructure/storage solutions
About the team
The Infrastructure Engineering team is part of the Amazon World Wide Grocery Stores. We are a team for the infrastructure engineers with varied skills on Database management storage backup and compute at the Whole Foods Market (WFM). We ensure WFM teams a successful in their on prem responsibilities migrations to AWS. We enable app teams to build and deliver cloud solutions.
5 years of systems engineering or equivalent experience
Deep technical knowledge of data engineering tech stacks such as infrastructure backups infrastructure pipelines CFT CDK NoSQL transformations etc.
Experience in migrating 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 migration software and technologies (MGN DMS SCT)
Deep knowledge of AWS infrastructure storage and backups services
Experience with software development methodologies and programming languages such as Java Python 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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