Systems Engineer/DevOps Eng, ESC Managed Operations

Amazon; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 65.000 - 85.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A global cloud services company in Berlin is seeking experienced systems engineers to join their Operations team for the launch of the European Sovereign Cloud. The role includes overseeing day-to-day operations, collaborating with global teams, and enhancing the availability of AWS services. The ideal candidate will have expertise in systems engineering, experience with scripting, and a solid understanding of Linux and networking. Candidates must be nationals of EU member states. This position may include participation in on-call rotations.

Leistungen

Relocation support within the EU

Career growth opportunities

Mentorship programs

Qualifikationen

• Demonstrated expertise in systems engineering with hardware, software, networking, and operating systems.
• Experience in scripting processes in Bash, Python, or Ruby.
• Able to lead the creation and improvement of operational procedures.

Aufgaben

• Oversee the launch of the European Sovereign Cloud.
• Collaborate with global AWS teams to enhance service availability.
• Support the development and management of specialized security solutions.

Kenntnisse

Fluency in written and spoken English

Systems engineering

Scripting in Bash, Python, or Ruby

Solid understanding of Linux

Networking troubleshooting

Ausbildung

National of an EU member state

Tools

Monitoring frameworks (CloudWatch, Datadog, etc.)

Infrastructure as Code (CDK, CloudFormation, etc.)

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

AWS is set to introduce the inaugural European Sovereign Cloud (ESC). We are seeking experienced systems engineers with a strong background in automation and operations to join the AWS Managed Operations team. You will help build and lead operations and development teams delivering high-availability AWS services for EU customers, including EC2, S3, Dynamo, Lambda, and Bedrock. For more information on ESC please check out our blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/

Responsibilities include overseeing the launch of the ESC in 2025, collaborating with global AWS teams, and influencing the evolution of AWS services and technology. You will work with technology leaders to enhance day-to-day operations and improve availability, reliability, latency, performance, and efficiency of the ESC. The role may require occasional participation 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. This is a challenging opportunity to help build a best-in-class development, engineering, and operations team aligned with AWS’ commitment to customer satisfaction and continual innovation.

Utility Computing (UC) and ESC context: European Sovereign Cloud is part of AWS Utility Computing, which provides innovations from foundational services like S3 and EC2 to new product innovations that differentiate AWS. 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. Managed Operations engineers engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Eligibility Requirements

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
• Candidate must be a national of an EU member state and reside in the EU to operate the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
• Amazon will provide relocation support for successful applicants relocating within the European Union.
• Employees will participate in an On-Call rota.

A day in the life

Embark on a week focused on the operation and improvement of significant software systems. Review the operational health of services within your team’s responsibility, identify anomalies, and craft actionable bug reports to enhance efficiency and performance. You will provide constructive feedback on change management documents, address operational backlog, and collaborate to ensure seamless functionality of your systems. You will develop and test scripts to improve workflows, and share insights on the European Sovereign Cloud with service teams to foster knowledge sharing. The role includes 24x7 on-call responsibility and requires working as a team to root-cause issues and maintain operational excellence.

About the team

Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. We encourage candidates to apply even if they do not meet all preferred qualifications. If your career is just starting or you have an unconventional path, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and continue to innovate, trusted by customers from startups to Global 500 companies.

Work/Life Balance

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Inclusive Team Culture

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Mentorship & Career Growth

We aim to raise our performance bar and provide knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other resources to help you grow as a professional.

Basic Qualifications

• This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state.
• Demonstrated expertise in systems engineering working with hardware, software, networking, and operating systems.
• Experience scripting processes in Bash, Python, or Ruby.
• Solid understanding of Linux and networking; ability to troubleshoot and anticipate problems affecting performance, reliability, or availability of software systems.
• Able to lead the creation, revision, and/or improvement of standard operational procedures (SOPs) and drive operational best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic, or similar).
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and working cross-organizationally on strategic team efforts requiring collaboration across multiple teams.
• Experience supporting services in AWS or other cloud environments.
• Experience operating 24x7 high-availability, distributed software applications and performance tuning to optimize fleet utilization.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (such as CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar).

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