Senior Systems Engineer in Reading

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AWS builds and operates some of the largest internet infrastructure on the planet, providing customers with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. To meet growing demand for AWS Services around the globe, we need exceptionally motivated people who are driven by learning and innovation.

Key responsibilities

Our Senior Systems Engineers are technical leaders for their team, becoming subject matter experts in multiple services. They work efficiently with limited guidance, solve complex problems, and drive improvements to services and features.

Lead team design, scoping, prioritization discussions; understand how technical decisions impact other teams; optimize and automate team processes to meet organizational goals.

Lead implementation reviews (designs, code, operational readiness, deployment plans, system changes, etc.) and anticipate patterns affecting performance, reliability, or availability to create scalable automation.

Identify when implementations lack high availability, performance, security, stability, or maintainability; determine short- and long-term mitigations; troubleshoot via Linux expertise and provide data/metrics to manage capacity and efficiency.

Drive SOPs, documentation, and runbook creation; coach and mentor others; recruit and interview to build team expertise; communicate clearly and collaborate to deliver results.

Basic Qualifications

Advanced knowledge in Linux system administration

Significant experience of systems automation using BASH, Python, Perl, etc

Significant experience of 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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience of building and operating systems at scale

Advanced knowledge of configuration management systems, such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or related systems

Significant experience of monitoring frameworks (CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar)

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Job ID: A3074939

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