Amazon ADC Engineer II Region Services - Aperture Team WorkSpaces 

United States, Texas, Arlington 

30168540

The ideal candidate for this role will be motivated by building the solutions and tools to handle these challenges at cloud scale. The candidate will have a strong technical background, be detail driven, and have excellent problem solving abilities. You will be comfortable designing, building, deploying, and operating.He/she will be responsible for systems functionality, performance, and configurations issues. He/she will demonstrate sound knowledge of Unix and Scripting concepts and theory, and have experience participating in systems deployment and support. It is important that you can earn trust of your peers and stakeholders through your body of work and day to day interactions. This role requires ambition, thinking big, self-motivation, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and startup-like environment.If Arlington, VA:This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.Key job responsibilities
- Drive the stability and sustainability of these next-generation systems and discover innovative ways to scale and operate them reliably as we expand.- Deploy and monitor the systems and automation to ensure that regional tooling is operating optimally.
- Utilize trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks, tools and processes to continuously improve systems.Work/Life BalanceMentorship & Career Growth

- Associate's degree, or Cloud+ or GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner)
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or other technical degree OR 5+ years experience in DevOps, Systems Engineering in lieu of degree
- 2+ years deploying and operating large scale software services on Linux (or related Unix distributions)
- Proficiency in one or more of Perl, Python, Ruby, Bash or Java
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

- Master's Degree in in Information Technology / Engineering, Computer Software / Engineering or another or related technical discipline
- 8+ years’ experience with systems software and systems architecture (preferably Linux or related UNIX operating systems)
- Hands-on experience managing efforts in Linux / Unix (or Windows) environments, distributed systems and/or developing large-scale web applications as well as strong understanding of database technology
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Experience with DNS, DHCP, SSH, HTTP, TCP/IP and other common network protocols
- Experience with system analysis and troubleshooting in large-scale Linux environment