Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer – AWS Utility Computing (UC)

Would you like to help implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the most complex technical problems? Are you excited by the prospect of building and running 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 infrastructures on the planet, providing companies of all sizes with a cloud-based infrastructure services platform. 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.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations – from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart from the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will be a technical leader for your team and a subject‑matter expert in multiple services. You will work efficiently and routinely deliver the right solutions with limited guidance, using technology to solve complex problems and drive improvements to services and features. You will identify when implementations are not highly available, performant, secure, stable, maintainable, or have defects and determine short‑ and long‑term mitigations.

Your depth and breadth of understanding across technology areas, coupled with your Linux expertise, will enable you to troubleshoot, innovate fixes and workarounds, keep software up‑to‑date, and provide data and metrics that help manage capacity and efficiency of services.

You will lead team design, scoping, and prioritization discussions, understand how technical decisions impact your team and others, and recommend opportunities and solutions. You will optimize and automate team processes, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. You will drive SOP, documentation, and runbook creation and review for accuracy, advocating best practices. You will actively recruit, interview, coach, and mentor teammates while communicating clearly to deliver results.

You will be a self‑starter comfortable with ambiguity and change, customer‑obsessed, and eager to resolve pain points quickly and completely.

Amazon values diverse experiences and encourages candidates who may not meet every preference to apply. Our culture emphasizes curiosity, collaboration, and inclusion. We promote mentorship and career growth, offer flexible work‑life integration, and prioritize employee well‑being.

• Advanced knowledge in Linux system administration
• Significant experience in systems automation using BASH, Python, Perl, or similar
• Significant experience in network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, switching, HTTP)
• Excellent troubleshooting skills at all levels, from application to network to host
• Experience writing technical documents, project plans, and progress reports to leadership and stakeholders

• Experience building and operating systems at scale
• Advanced knowledge of configuration management systems such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or related systems
• Significant experience with monitoring frameworks such as Cloud Watch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic, or similar

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