Overview
AWS is set to introduce the inaugural European Sovereign Cloud (ESC), marking a significant development in Utility Computing (UC).
To spearhead this initiative, we are actively seeking experienced systems engineers with a strong background in cloud operations.
As part of the AWS Managed Operations team, you will play a pivotal role in building and leading operations and development teams dedicated to delivering high-availability AWS services, including EC2, S3, Dynamo, Lambda, and Bedrock, exclusively for EU customers.
Responsibilities
You will oversee the launch of the ESC in ****, work closely with global AWS teams, and influence the evolution of AWS services and technology.
A typical day in this role involves collaborating with technology leaders, contributing to the enhancement of day-to-day operations, and ensuring improvements in availability, reliability, latency, performance, and efficiency of the ESC.
A day in the life
You'll spend the majority of your time operating and improving one of the largest software systems.
Over the course of a week you will review the operational health of the services in your team's care, and as soon as you figure out why there was an anomaly, you write up an actionable bug report.
As a responsible engineer, you've learned never to make changes to production systems without a plan, so you review and then execute changes following a change-management process to one of the production systems in your care.
Later in the week, you help to resolve your team's backlog of operational issues.
You round off the week by writing a cool script that you share with your team which helps get to root cause faster of a hard problem that you diagnosed earlier.
We will require you to occasionally participate in an "on-call" rotation to resolve incidents occurring out-of-hours.
Eligibility requirement
Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
Candidate must be a national of an EU member state and residing in the EU to operate the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
Amazon will provide relocation support for successful applicants relocating within the European Union.
Employees will participate in an On-Call rota.
About the team
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Basic Qualifications
This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state.
Bachelor's degree in computer science (or related IT discipline) or equivalent industry experience.
Knowledge or experience in scripting (Bash, Python, or Ruby) or software development (Java, TypeScript, or similar), coupled with Linux and networking fundamentals to effectively troubleshoot and optimize system performance and reliability.
Preferred Qualifications
Able to execute standard operating procedures and follow operational best practices.
Knowledge or experience operating services in AWS or other cloud systems or services.
Knowledge or experience operating 24x7 high-availability distributed software applications, performance tuning software applications and optimizing fleet utilization and monitoring frameworks such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar.
Knowledge or experience with Infrastructure as Code such as CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar.
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