Position Summary
A key role in driving the launch of AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC), a significant development in utility computing, has become available. As part of the Managed Operations team, you will lead operations and development teams to deliver high-availability services to EU customers.
Job Description
We are seeking experienced systems development engineers with a strong background in automation and operations to spearhead this initiative. Key responsibilities include collaborating with global AWS teams, influencing the evolution of AWS services and technology, and ensuring improvements in availability, reliability, latency, performance, and efficiency of the ESC.
You will be required to occasionally participate in on-call rotations to resolve incidents occurring out-of-hours. The overarching goal is to deliver scalable services and ensure a high-availability experience for EU customers.
Main Responsibilities
* Oversight of the ESC launch in 2025
* Collaboration with global AWS teams
* Influence on the evolution of AWS services and technology
* Ensuring improvements in availability, reliability, latency, performance, and efficiency of the ESC
Key Qualifications
* Experience with coding and automation in modern programming languages (Java, Typescript, Python, or Ruby)
* Familiarity with Linux, command line, and computer networking fundamentals
* Ability to troubleshoot at all levels (network to operating systems to software applications)
* Experience supporting cloud systems or other services
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Excellent communication and problem-solving skills across languages
* Experience operating 24x7 high-availability distributed software applications and performance tuning
* Strong understanding of network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, load balancing, load shedding)
* Experience with monitoring frameworks (CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic)
* Scripting operating system tasks in Bash, Python, etc., and Infrastructure as Code (CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
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