Sr. Systems Engineer, Managed Operations

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Berlin; In loco; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

AWS European Sovereign Cloud Development Center GmbH in Berlin seeks a senior systems engineer to lead automation and operations for the EU Sovereign Cloud (ESC), delivering highly available AWS services for EU customers.

You will work with global teams, shape day-to-day operations, participate in on-call rotations, and drive improvements in latency, performance and reliability.

Competenze

• Systems engineering experience with hardware, software, networking, and OS.
• Experience in Python, Perl, or other scripting languages.
• Expertise in Linux and networking with diagnostics and monitoring.
• Experience in creating and improving SOPs and operational best practices.

Mansioni

• Contribute to smooth operation of the ESC and collaborate with global AWS teams.
• Improve availability, reliability, latency, performance, and efficiency.
• Participate in occasional on-call rotations to resolve incidents.
• Lead and build high-availability services for EU customers.

Conoscenze

Systems engineering

Python

Linux

Networking

Root cause analysis

Strumenti

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps practices

Infrastructure as Code

CDK

CloudFormation

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Generative AI tooling

Descrizione del lavoro

Description

AWS has recently launched the inaugural European Sovereign Cloud (ESC), marking a significant development in utility computing (UC). To spearhead this initiative, we are actively seeking experienced senior systems engineers with a strong background in automation and 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.

Description

AWS has recently launched the inaugural European Sovereign Cloud (ESC), marking a significant development in utility computing (UC). To spearhead this initiative, we are actively seeking experienced senior systems engineers with a strong background in automation and 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 contributing to the smooth operation of the ESC, 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. You will be required to occasionally participate in “on-call” rotations to resolve incidents occurring out-of-hours.

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.

Eligibility requirement

• This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
• Amazon will provide relocation support for successful applicants relocating within the European Union.

About The Team

About AWS

Diverse Experiences

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Basic Qualifications

• This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state
• Systems engineering experience, working with hardware, software, networking, operating systems
• Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
• Expertise in Linux and networking with proven ability to conduct advanced system diagnostics, implement preventive measures, and resolve complex technical issues that impact system performance, reliability, scalability, and high availability across distributed software environments. Demonstrated success in root cause analysis, performance optimization, and implementing robust monitoring solutions to ensure seamless operation of mission-critical systems.
• Experience in leading the creation, revision, and/or improvement of standard operational procedures (SOPs) and driving operational best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives that align multiple teams and stakeholders across organizational boundaries
• Ability to influence without direct authority
• Experience mentoring and developing teams and engineers
• Experience operating 24x7 high-availability, distributed software applications and performance tuning software applications and optimizing fleet utilization
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code, (such as CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Generative AI technologies, including automated deployment, configuration management, continuous integration workflows, prompt engineering, model deployment, and AI-powered automation tools

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Company

AWS European Sovereign Cloud Development Center GmbH

Job ID: A10537399