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Amazon System Development Engineer AWS Direct Connect - Metrics & Monitoring 
United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis 
40691421

09.09.2024
DESCRIPTION

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.You'll be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in software defined networking and cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about cloud computing and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. You will work alongside some of the best software and network development engineers in the world, helping to continue design and deliver the Direct Connect product. You'll know what it means to operate, scale, and posture the largest customer-facing cloud network in the world. You will measure your success, and it will be visible.Why AWS
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Work/Life BalanceMentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Key job responsibilities
• Develop and operate scalable, low-latency, high-availability services.
• Automate network operations and deployment tasks by creating and maintaining existing software components.
• Design systems management solutions using automation and self-repair rather than relying on alarming and human intervention.
• Understand how operating systems and networks functions perform and scale.
• Possess excellent troubleshooting and problem analysis skills.
• Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation.
• Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact.
• Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification and automation.
• Avoid re-inventing the wheel and develop simple, repeatable solutions and processes
• Act as a technical point of escalation & mentor for junior staff.
• Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources.
• Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency.A day in the life
As a member in the AWS Direct Connect team, you will...

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
- Experience with distributed systems at scale