Amazon Senior Systems Development Engineer IAM IES 

United States, Texas, Austin 

564141918

Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud database solutions that meet high availability, performance, and security requirements
- Lead database migration projects from on-premises to cloud environments
- Create and optimize database maintenance and operational procedures
- Develop automation solutions for database operations and monitoring
- Provide technical leadership in database architecture and best practices
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response- A forward-looking attitude that keeps you aware of the latest in database and replication technologies.
A day in the life

- 5+ years of systems engineering or equivalent experience
- Deep technical knowledge of data engineering tech stacks, such as relational databases, data pipelines, NoSQL, transformations, etc.
- Experience migrating databases from on-prem to cloud or running in a hybrid cloud environment
- AWS Associate Level certification(s)
- Can solve significantly complex systems engineering problems; able to deconstruct these into simple solutions
- Excellent diagnostician: anticipates and mitigates patterns that affect the performance, reliability, or availability of systems to drive automation that simplifies workloads that scale operations.
- Proven ability to educate others on maintenance characteristics, runtime properties, and infrastructure of team systems.
- Proficient in a broad range of technologies (hardware, software, networking, operating systems) and how they interact with one another in complex systems.
- Ability to self direct and split your time between design, architecture, and critical operations based on where you will have the greatest impact
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell)
- Strong understanding of system security and data protection requirements