1 day ago
Herndon, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$105k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and implement scalable mechanisms supporting AWS Operations as a Service.
- Operate AWS software systems in 24/7 production environments.
- Automate processes at scale to reduce costs and eliminate operational toil.
- Improve service availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, and monitoring.
- Drive support metrics and continuous process improvements.
- Design and develop maintainable, scalable, and secure automation scripts.
- Recommend resilience and reliability improvements to service teams.
Requirements
- At least two years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration.
- At least two years of Linux experience.
- Experience working in a 24/7 production environment.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or relevant work experience.
- Preferred: five or more years of related engineering or administration experience.
- Preferred: experience with Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Bash, Shell, or equivalent.
- Preferred: experience designing and reviewing automation scripts for maintainability, scalability, and security.
- Preferred: knowledge of TCP/IP and networking protocols such as HTTP and DNS.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the compensation package.
- Mentorship, knowledge-sharing, code reviews, and career-growth resources.
- The posting states that the team supports flexibility and work-life harmony.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.