Amazon

Senior Systems Engineer, Sarsen

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15 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate infrastructure and services for AWS customers.
  • Diagnose customer issues, performance trends, reliability problems, and service defects.
  • Use Linux expertise to troubleshoot systems, develop fixes and workarounds, update software, and provide capacity and efficiency metrics.
  • Automate manual processes and improve operational excellence, performance, reliability, and availability.
  • Lead design, scoping, prioritization, implementation, and operational-readiness reviews.
  • Create and maintain SOPs, documentation, and runbooks while driving best practices.
  • Coach and mentor teammates, communicate with partner teams, and recruit and interview candidates.

Requirements

  • Experience with Linux systems administration.
  • Experience with a scripting language such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, Perl, Ruby, or similar.
  • Experience with network fundamentals including DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, switching, and HTTP.
  • Preferred: experience in systems engineering, site reliability engineering, or building and operating systems at scale.
  • Preferred: knowledge of DevOps practices and tools, including continuous integration/deployment, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, and Chef.
  • Preferred: experience with logging and monitoring tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic, and Splunk.
  • Preferred: experience deploying identity and access management systems.

Benefits

  • AWS provides employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups and inclusion events.
  • Mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-advancement resources are available.
  • The company supports flexibility and work-life harmony.
  • Workplace accommodations and adjustments are available during the application and hiring process.

Tech Stack

AWSBashChefDatadogDockerKubernetesLinuxPerlPowerShellPuppetPythonRubySplunk

Categories

Amazon

About Amazon

10,000+ employees

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.

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