AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is a disaster recovery service provided by AWS that enables organizations to minimize downtime and data loss with fast reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications. DRS uses cost-effective AWS resources to maintain an up-to-date copy of source servers on AWS allowing for point-in-time recovery and failback to the primary site after an issue is resolved.
The AWS DRS team is looking for a passionate software professional to join our team and help to solve a challenging set of problems in a space packed full of opportunities. In this role you will participate in the full life cycle of AWS services including requirements definition software design implementation and ownership of the product.
The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic with working on mission critical applications that operate at scale. They will also be passionate about technology and working with the best software developers in the world to innovate and provide our customers an unparalleled experience. This individual will have a track record of leading engineering projects and driving technical innovations.
Key job responsibilities
Architect design and implement solutions that meet high availability performance and security requirements
Lead projects through all phases of development deployment and support
Collaborate with peers and stakeholders across multiple teams and organizations
Identify and develop automation testing to verify function as part of our CI/CD pipeline
Provide technical guidance and leadership in the implementation of scalable and robust solutions
Identify and execute on initiatives to improve operational excellence
Participate in on-call rotations and incident response
Mentor team members on technologies and best practices
About the team
The AWS DRS team develops Disaster Recovery solutions for any source (physical virtual or cloud) to AWS with near-zero downtime and 100% data integrity. Customers rely on Elastic Disaster Recovery to provide reliable business continuity solutions that simplify mobilizing entire workloads and environments to AWS.
- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelors degree or higher in computer science or related field
- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience with Linux kernel and low-level Linux programming
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