Amazon System Engineer Messaging Streaming Team 

United Kingdom, England 

60246037

Key job responsibilities
* Work proactively to solve potential problems and inefficiencies. Communicate clearly and collaborate with others to deliver results with minimal supervision.
* Participating in 24/7 on-call rotation to troubleshoot high severity issues
* Analysing dashboards and investigating metrics with the vision for improvements
* Create and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and runbooks for documentation
* Discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues, assess risks and develop creative solutions.
* Develop strategies for resolving identified problems to prevent future occurrences
* Assist others in the team
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* Experience writing scripts from scratch for automating manual tasks (BASH, Python, Perl, Ruby or similar)
* Solid background in Linux. Familiarity with in depth troubleshooting and ability to solve complex technical problems
* Knowledge of network fundamentals (DNS, UDP, TCP/IP, HTTP (s), routing, switching)
* Experience owning services that are secure, scalable, reliable and efficient. Can identify multiple operational and security risks and then resolve, mitigate and/or escalate them

* Bachelor’s Degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or relevant work experience
* Exposure to cloud computing concepts and design considerations
* Experience in a 24x7 production environment
* Experience of monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar)