Site Reliability Engineer , Cryptography, Access and Identity Services

Site Reliability Engineer , Cryptography, Access and Identity Services

Job ID: AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Are you interested in working with the latest cloud computing technologies and becoming a core part of the largest cloud infrastructure on the planet? AWS is seeking a Systems Engineer to build and operate services for our customers, automate service operations and deployment methods, and provide mentoring for junior team members. You will work in a large scale, high availability environment building and operating critical Cryptography, Access and Identity services for our customers. This role is designed for someone with a strong engineering background and passion for driving efficiency, quality, and process improvements within our service operations. You will have the opportunity to utilize AI tooling and build solutions that automate away manual tasks. As a Systems Engineer at Amazon you will use Linux skills to troubleshoot, innovate fixes, keep software up to date and provide data and metrics to help manage capacity and efficiency. You will draw on networking knowledge to identify and troubleshoot connectivity issues. Our systems engineering role enables engineers to develop a broad range of skills and take ownership across a complex technology stack.

Top reasons to join

• Learn how to build and operate distributed systems at massive scale
• Be a catalyst to deliver truly disruptive products that are growing rapidly
• Solve unique and first order problems at massive scale across many AWS Services
• Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services
• Deliver solutions which reduce manual toil across our organization

Key job responsibilities

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

A day in the life

On a typical day engineers might build infrastructure and services for our customers. They dive deep into understanding root cause of a customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way and consult with senior engineers. We make out of hours support as painless as possible by implementing Operational Excellence best practices and automating manual processes.

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 maintainability, scalability and security standards
• Experience working in 24/7 production environment
• Experience with service oriented architecture and web services

Location

Location: ES, Community of Madrid, Madrid

Equal Opportunity Statement

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