Systems Engineer II, AWS Managed Operations (MO) AWSOM Team

Would you enjoy diving deep into operating and improving some of the largest software systems humanity has ever built Do the challenges that come of driving technical business and cultural change to improve the reliability performance and efficiency excite you

The AWS Managed Operations (MO) organization was founded in April 2023 with the objective to reduce operational load and toil through long-term engineering projects. MO is building the best-in-class engineering and operations team that will own the day-to-day operations for AWS Regions; improving the availability reliability latency performance and efficiency to operate AWS regions.

Amazon is looking for highly motivated Systems Engineers who can balance the day-to-day operations of AWS software systems with long-term software engineering to reduce operational toil. We need engineers who enjoy constantly learning and diving deep into the wide range of systems and technologies that make up one of the worlds largest cloud providers.

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A day in the life
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About 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.

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.

Inclusive Team Culture

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Mentorship & Career Growth

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Work/Life Balance

We value work-life 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.

About the team
AWS Operations Management (AWSOM) teams mission is to launch a new offering that will drive security availability performance and efficiency improvements to operate AWS Regions globally. We relentlessly remove operational toil through automation to run day-to-day operations at scale. We increase collaboration bridge development and operations while prioritizing the needs of our customers.

AWSOM teams vision is to own the operational responsibility for all Utility Compute (UC) services in AWS commercial and sovereign regions to free up service teams time to continue innovating quickly for our customers. AWSOM will be responsible for service availability latency performance efficiency change management and monitoring.

AWSOM will also directly influence the experience of our customers through recommending to service teams to build resilience and reliability into the products at the forefront.

- 4 years of site reliability engineering (SRE) systems engineering systems administration DevOps security administration or network administration experience
- 5 years of Linux experience
- 5 years of systems engineering experience
- Experience in any of the following: Python Java Perl PHP Ruby Bash Shell or equivalent

- 5 years of site reliability engineering (SRE) systems engineering systems administration DevOps security administration or network administration experience
- Knowledge of TCP/IP and networking protocols such as HTTP and DNS
- Experience designing and developing scripts to automate operational burdens and reviewing scripting changes to ensure they meet the standards for maintainability scalability and security
- Experience working in 24/7 production environment
- Experience with service-oriented architecture and web services

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $94000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $207900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.