Cloud Support Engineer (Database)

at  Amazon Web Services New Zealand Limited

• Administration experience with (1) of the following Database engines (SQL Server \ MySQL \ MariaDB \ Amazon Aurora)
• Experience with System Administration in Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat) and / or Microsoft Windows Server and related services (Active Directory)
• Experience with Networking and troubleshooting (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, , firewalls or LAN/WAN)
  Amazon Web Services is the market leader and technology forerunner in the Cloud business. As a member of the AWS Support team you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology, assisting a global list of companies and developers that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications. As a Cloud Support Engineer, you will act as the ‘Cloud Ambassador’ across all the cloud products, arming our customers with required tools & tactics to get the most out of their Product and Support investment.
  Would you like to use the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have an interest in helping customers understand application architectures and integration approaches? Are you familiar with best practices for applications, servers and networks? Do you want to be part of a customer facing technology team helping to ensure the success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading technology organization?
  If you fit the description, you might be the person we are looking for! We are a group of smart people, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success.

This role supports our services that focus on Databases technologies including RDS (Aurora, SQL Server, MariaDB, MySQL), Database Migration Services, Lightsail and more.
Want to know what’s it like to be a Support Engineer at AWS? Take a look!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC3bWcFFZTo
What if I’m not an expert in all the preferred qualifications listed on the job description? That’s okay. That’s our preferred list, not a required listed. We hire people who can dive deep so we’re more interested in the areas that you do know instead of those you haven’t been exposed to yet.
Amazon Web Services is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Auckland, NZL | Wellington, NZL

• Experience with Database troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Experience with setting up monitoring / alarming for Database environments
• Experience with Database migration and ETL
• Experience with query analyzers and query tuning / slow query optimization
• Knowledge or AWS and Cloud Computing concepts
• Experience Troubleshooting the full application stacks from Operating system through to custom applications