System Development Engineer, AWS Batch

Description

• Do you want to work on something that has an immediate impact to your customers and the business?
• Do you want to work on projects that will allow you to keep up to date with technology?
• Do you thrive in an environment where there is always something to investigate or automate?
  

Amazon Web Services is looking for a Systems Development Engineer to join our AWS Batch Development Engineering team. Our projects include scalable distributed systems that provide an inexpensive and reliable compute platform. This is an opportunity to join a world class team that is at the forefront of operating the next major computing platform. As a member of this AWS team you will help create the environment that will set the pattern for a generation to come. You should be somebody who enjoys working on solving problems, is customer-centric, and feels strongly not only about operations but also about running systems and software in the real world. You must enjoy a close-knit team environment of shared responsibility. The ideal candidate will have strong distributed systems design and engineering experience, *NIX and networking fundamentals, and a passion for AWS technology and Infrastructure-as-Code.

As a Systems Development Engineer on AWS Batch, you will be building on the cutting edge of AWS technologies. You will be an active member in system design and implementation.

You Will Be Expected To Deliver On These Kinds Of Things In The First Six To Twelve Months On The Job

• Maintain fleet inventory management, including producing, maintaining, and evolving capacity plans for various components.
• Develop or further existing automation and system management tools and processes that reduce manual efforts and increase overall efficiency.
• Through participation in all phases of the development of a large distributed system, provide hardware, manageability, operability and performance perspectives on all aspects of AWS Batch and their dependencies.
• Define and/or refine compute and AWS resource requirements, balancing raw up-front dollar cost with operability and TCO, from the AWS infrastructure up specify and participate in the development and delivery of operability-related features such as system health monitoring, diagnostics, repair, and other self-healing automation.
• Adapt and improve operations management systems and processes to accommodate rapid and increasing growth in systems and traffic.
• Participate in the design and execution of production acceptance tests and scaling evaluations.
• Monitor the health of the fleet, automating system health, maintenance tasks, and reporting systems as needed.
• Manage directly assigned tasks and on-call duties gracefully.
  

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.


Basic Qualifications

• BS Computer Science or other technical degree or related experience
• Experience developing automation to solve problems at scale; coding skills are required.
• 5 plus years of solid *NIX system engineering experience.
  

** For more information on AWS Batch, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/batch/ **

Preferred Qualifications

• Our ideal candidate is highly autonomous, very detail oriented, possesses strong written and verbal communication skills.
• An AWS Builder; You enjoy building solutions on AWS.
• Experience running and maintaining a 24x7 customer-facing production environment, preferably across multiple data centers, involving hundreds of machines.
• Thorough understanding of fundamental internet protocols such as DNS, HTTP, and TCP.
• A solid grasp of *NIX and networking fundamentals.
• Demonstrable expertise around specifying, designing, and/or implementing system health, performance monitoring tools, and software management tools for 24x7 environments.
• Familiar with the challenges surrounding efficient operations and failure mode analysis in large complex distributed systems.
• Experience building and running containerized workloads.
• HPC experience.
  

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Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Women / Minority / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.


Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A1040801

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