System Development Engineer, ESC

Would you like to be an Engineer that builds the Cloud rather than an Engineer that just uses it At AWS our Engineers look after the behind-the-scenes software and tools that make the worlds largest cloud computing infrastructure possible.

We have an amazing opportunity for you to join a world-class network team in a dynamic environment that has the feel of a start-up. As a System Development Engineer you will help to deploy manage fix and reinvent the tools services and components that network engineering rely on to automate our network and keep it operational. Your internal customers are your network engineer colleagues and through close collaboration support and exchange of ideas we share a common goal to serve our external customers and grow through learning and innovation.

If you are exceptionally motivated and passionate about the work you do then we welcome you to join us working in an Agile environment with the most advanced tools processes and talented people in the industry to make the Cloud a reality.

What youll be working on:

* Simplifying and reinventing systems processes and tools to make things better for our customers
* Managing and growing innovative production-quality tools to solve real operational problems for our network
* Investigating technical issues scientifically and thoroughly and assist in fixing them so they dont come back
* Providing technical solutions to real business problems in a global organization

Top reasons to join our team:

* Be a catalyst to deliver truly disruptive products that are growing rapidly
* Define build own and run a service in a high growth environment
* Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services
* Learning from industry recognized Amazon distinguished engineers

Key job responsibilities
A SysDE is responsible for maintaining their teams services requiring them to troubleshoot and identify the root causes of any issues that arise within their systems and any subcomponents. A SysDE will utilise testing monitoring and validations on their services tools and infrastructure to ensure their teams can continuously deploy new versions of the services with minimal interruption. A SysDE will identify areas to invent refine and develop automation and tools to reduce manual operations and fulfil the requirements of the business and their customers.

About the team
The Systems Development team manages all of the software services and platforms that builds operates monitors and assures the AWS network within an isolated region.

- Knowledge of fundamentals of networking security databases (relational or NoSQL) operating systems (Unix Linux and/or Windows)
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems or experience in managing and troublshooting network and experience that includes strong analytical skills attention to detail and effective communication abilities
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state.

- Experience of designing developing or operating cloud services running on AWS or another cloud platform

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