Graduate Devops Engineer, AWS

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
- Work proactively to solve potential problems and inefficiencies. Communicate clearly and collaborate with others to deliver results with minimal supervision.
- Participating in 24/7 on-call rotation to troubleshoot high severity issues.
- Analysing dashboards and investigating metrics with the vision for improvements.
- Troubleshooting and diagnosing problems and working on solutions.
- Create and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and runbooks for documentation.
- Discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues assess risks and develop creative solutions.

You will need to be a UK national and able to obtain and maintain a UK Government Security Clearance. Further details found here: day in the life
WHAT DOES A SYSTEMS ENGINEER DO AT AMAZON

Amazon has a collaborative purposeful and enthusiastic environment where we Work Hard Have Fun Make History. On a typical day engineers might dive deep into understanding the root cause of a customer issue investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way and consult with senior engineers at Amazon. We own our services and believe in making out-of-hours support as painless as possible. To achieve this we implement Operational Excellence best practices and strive to automate manual processes.

Our Systems Engineering roles help engineers develop a broad range of skills. They utilise their Linux skills to troubleshoot innovate fixes and workarounds keep software up-to-date and provide data and metrics that help manage the capacity and efficiency of our services. They draw on their networking knowledge to identity and troubleshoot network connectivity issues. They communicate clearly and collaborate with others to deliver results. They are self-starters comfortable dealing with ambiguity and change. They are customer-obsessed always looking to understand customer pain points and find resolutions quickly and completely.

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- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or other technical degree or related experience
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals
- Experience working in a 24/7 production environment
- Experience in Linux systems administration and/or development
- Experience working in at least two of these languages: Python Java Perl PHP Ruby or Bash/Shell

- Knowledge of configuration management systems such as Puppet Chef Ansible or related systems
- Experience in site reliability engineering (SRE) systems engineering systems administration DevOps security administration or network administration
- Experience in network capture and systems troubleshooting
- Experience building scripts tooling and automation for large-scale computing environments

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