Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineer, IREO

Description

Do you want to support the efforts of the Intelligence Community’s mission by providing the highest availability, scalability and security requirements possible? Are you passionate to learn how to operate services at scale while deep diving issues and harnessing your customer obsession? If so, then look no further!!!

Amazon is building some of the largest distributed systems in the world, and we need astute people to support and engineer the next generation of compute and storage platforms for our customer. Amazon’s IREO (Infrastructure Reliability Engineering Organization ) team provides support worldwide with a focus on continuous improvement. We have exceptionally high standards for our infrastructure as well as our employees, and our systems are highly reliable, highly available, and turn scale into an advantage for our business and an asset to our customers. Our employees are exceptional, driven to serve customers, and fun to work with.

Skills

The IREO team is looking for experienced people who are willing to own solutions, insist on the highest standards for our customers and can both think of the big picture but dive deep into solutions when the situation warrants. The skills and traits we are looking for include:

• Have strong Linux/Unix Systems Administration knowledge to include reading, understanding and execution of shell scripts
• Work with internal Software Development teams to drive improvement of the systems/services within the team's scope
• Be a focal point for the escalation for complex issues and dive deep for solutions as well as provide guidance and knowledge-sharing with your teammates
• Work directly with the various service owners and hardware design teams to collaborate on hardware issues within the fleet
• Ability to understand, execute and improve documented procedures and effectively generate documentation to communicate status
• Identify areas to improve operational efficiency for all services through root cause and trend analysis with the identification and development of SLA, metrics, monitors, procedures, tools, and documentation
• Have, or be able to obtain, basic qualifications such as High school or equivalent diploma, or A+ or CND (Certified Network Defender) or Network+ or Security+
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
• 5+ years of administrative experience with Linux or cloud platform environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS CLI and/or AWS Console
• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, EBS, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, etc.
• Prefer database familiarity with MySQL and Dynamo DB, or similar engines.
• Prefer scripting experience with Python, Ruby, and/or Bash
• Experience with hardware troubleshooting and device familiarity

Basic Qualifications

• High school or equivalent diploma, or A+ or CND (Certified Network Defender) or Network+ or Security+
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
• 5+ years of administrative experience with Linux or cloud platform environments

Company - Amazon Data Services, Inc.

Job ID: A2903723