Systems Development Engineer, Managed Operations

at  Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited D94

• Experience in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Typescript, Python, or Ruby
• Familiarity with Linux, using the command line and basic administration, and computer networking fundamentals
• Experience with scripting and automation
  AWS is set to introduce the inaugural European Sovereign Cloud (ESC), marking a significant development in Utility Computing (UC). To spearhead this initiative, we are actively seeking experienced systems development engineers with a strong background in cloud operations. As part of the AWS Managed Operations team, you will play a pivotal role in building and leading operations and development teams dedicated to delivering high-availability AWS services, including EC2, S3, Dynamo, Lambda, and Bedrock, exclusively for EU customers. For more information on ESC please check out our blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/
  Your responsibilities will encompass overseeing the launch of the ESC in 2025, working closely with global AWS teams, and influencing the evolution of AWS services and technology. A typical day in this role involves collaborating with technology leaders, contributing to the enhancement of day-to-day operations, and ensuring improvements in availability, reliability, latency, performance, and efficiency of the ESC.
  The overarching goal is to deliver scalable services and ensure a high-availability experience for EU customers. If you are an experienced professional ready for a challenging and impactful opportunity, we invite you to join our efforts in building a best-in-class development engineering and operations team that aligns with AWS’ commitment to customer satisfaction and continual innovation.
  Utility Computing (UC)
  European Sovereign Cloud (ESC) is a part of AWS Utility Computing (UC).
  AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Managed Operations engineers engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
  A day in the life
  You’ll roughly spend 50% of your time operating production systems and 50% working with your team to make long-term improvements to the reliability, availability, and performance of those software systems. Over the course of a week, this could look like; Monday morning you root caused why some deployments recently failed, and in the afternoon, you made fixes for those bugs. Tuesday and Wednesday you executed a highly sensitive time critical change to production. Thursday and Friday you participated in a design discussions by another team, writing code, and providing actionable feedback to your team’s code.

Eligibility requirement

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
• Successful applicants must have the legal right to work in Ireland.
• Amazon will provide relocation support for successful applicants relocating within the European Union
• Familiarity troubleshooting across all levels, from network to operating systems to software applications
• Familiarity scripting operating system tasks in Bash, Python, etc.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, (such as CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar)
• Familiarity operating services in AWS

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