Cloud Systems Engineer — Messaging & Streaming

Amazon; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a System Engineer for the Messaging and Streaming Team in the UK. You will drive automation to simplify daily operations and scale support for services like Kinesis, SQS, SNS, EFS, and FSx. The role blends SRE, systems engineering, and networking with opportunities to improve reliability and performance.

The team emphasizes collaboration, on-call readiness, and continuous improvement, with mentoring and growth opportunities within AWS’s expansive ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Experience in SRE, systems engineering, or DevOps.
• Experience working with Linux.
• Experience with programming languages (Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Bash).
• Experience in systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Work proactively to solve potential problems and inefficiencies with minimal supervision.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation to troubleshoot high severity issues.
• Analyze dashboards and investigate metrics to identify improvements.
• Create and maintain SOPs and runbooks for documentation.
• Discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues and develop creative solutions.
• Develop strategies to resolve identified problems and prevent future occurrences.
• Assist others in the team.

Skills

SRE experience

Linux experience

Programming languages (Python/Java/Per

Systems engineering

Job description

Amazon is seeking a System Engineer for the Messaging and Streaming Team in the UK. You will drive automation to simplify daily operations and scale support for services like Kinesis, SQS, SNS, EFS, and FSx. The role blends SRE, systems engineering, and networking with opportunities to improve reliability and performance.

The team emphasizes collaboration, on-call readiness, and continuous improvement, with mentoring and growth opportunities within AWS’s expansive ecosystem.