Description

　　The region service Messaging and Streaming Team (MAST) is a customer experience-oriented team who is looking for a self-motivated talented engineer who can solve complex problems and have a vision to improvise the service support. MAST builds and supports Messaging and Streaming services such as Kinesis Data Streams, Simple Queue Service (SQS), Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon MQ, and Amazon Managed service for Apache Flink (MSF).

　　We are looking for a technical expert who brings a mix of operations and networking expertise and shares our passion to change the way our customers operate. A systems engineer will be creating and driving opportunities to automate and simplify the daily operations and scales the organisational operations.

　　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.

　　About the team

　　The team has the unique perspective of operating all of the messaging and streaming services, instead of the software components. This enables our team to drive cross organization initiatives to remove operational hurdles, optimize software delivery, and remove bottlenecks felt by all of AWS.

　　Upon joining the MAST Engineering team, every employee is paired with a peer buddy who will help you to quickly come up to speed in understanding the technology we’re building, the tools we use and the business problems we’re trying to solve.

　　We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

　　Thames Valley, POST-BER, GBR

　　Basic Qualifications

　　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

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　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)

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