Sr. System Development Engineer (SAP) - AWS SAP Engineering, AWS Commercial Services (SAP)

The Amazon EC2 Commercial Software Services team is seeking a Senior System Development Engineer to create solutions that drive the adoption of SAP workloads on AWS. As a member of the team youll design develop and own back-end subsystems that solve complex distributed system challenges. Youll also work on customer-facing APIs used by millions of applications worldwide.

The ideal candidate has deep technical skills in SAP applications and cloud computing allowing them to create innovative solutions that meet the needs of customers and the SAP community. Your SAP domain expertise and ABAP coding skills are essential to making a significant impact in this role.

As a Senior System Development Engineer youll be responsible for the entire service lifecycle collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive operational excellence and customer success. If youre ready to contribute to AWSs growth and work with the latest technologies from machine learning to advanced processors we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

Utility Computing (UC)
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
- Be actively involved in daily engineering activities providing hands-on technical guidance and support.
- Lead architecture design and proof-of-concept efforts for end-to-end project delivery ensuring high quality and simplicity in complex systems.
- Design implement deploy and maintain innovative distributed system software to enhance service security durability availability performance and cost-efficiency.
- Take ownership of complex projects managing broad scopes with autonomy and accountability.
- Communicate with customers and technical teams to define technical strategies and ensure alignment with business goals.
- Stay current with evolving technologies proactively researching new advancements to recommend and integrate into projects.
- Apply software engineering best practices to maintain a high standard of quality across all team deliverables.
In summary youll play a crucial role in the design and implementation of strategic services focused on enhancing enterprise cloud adoption particularly for SAP workloads. In this role youll lead and excel with minimal technical supervision work closely with senior engineers and have direct influence over the direction of the team.

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- 6 years of programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby experience
- 6 years of systems development in an IT or data center environment experience
- 6 years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- 6 years of systems design software development operations automation and process improvement experience
- Experience leading the design build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production
- Expertise in SAP Domain including SAP ABAP programming language skills.

- 3 years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Javascript) experience.
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and live site operations.
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers.

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