Systems Engineer, Database Services

Job ID: AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Would you like to help implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the world's most complex technical problems? Do you have a deep passion and desire to engineer and operate the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure to provide a better world for future generations? Amazon Web Services (AWS) builds and operates some of the largest internet infrastructure on the planet; providing companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS, customers provision compute power, storage, database, and other cloud resources as their business demands them. To meet the growing demand for AWS Services around the globe, we need exceptionally motivated people who are driven by learning and innovation.

The AWS Database Services (DBS) team helps to support and operate some of the largest distributed database and analytics services in the world. From DynamoDB to OpenSearch, Glue and EMR, the DBS team manages many of the most heavily used services in AWS. If you join us, you'll be part of a world-class team in a dynamic environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale and to gain world class experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are passionate about their field, believe that first class service is critical to customer success, and are committed to rapid iteration and continual improvement.

• Be a catalyst to deliver truly disruptive products that are growing rapidly
• Define, build, own, and run services in high growth environments
• Solve unique and first order problems in foundational AWS services such as DynamoDB, OpenSearch and Glue
• Learn how to build and operate distributed systems at scale
• Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services

Our Systems Engineers are expected to be leaders in their teams by becoming subject matter experts on multiple AWS services. They develop, build, deploy, operate, sustain and grow their services in cloud production environments. They are able to utilise trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements. They help develop and refine procedures used by their team and internal customers. They are able to develop at a high standard and can deal with new and ambiguous problem domains while consistently delivering customer impacting change.

• Operating the world's most advanced cloud computing infrastructure
• Simplifying and reinventing systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our customers and our builders
• Building unique solutions to our customers' technical problems
• Studying and learning from industry recognised Amazon Senior and Principal Engineers
• Coaching, hiring and developing team members

• Experience in site reliability engineering (SRE), systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration
• Experience working with Linux
• Experience in any of the following: Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Bash, Shell or equivalent

• 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

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