Senior Cloud Systems Engineer: Scale, Automate & Innovate

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Amber Valley; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead design, implementation and optimization of cloud infrastructure. You will work with multiple AWS services and collaborate across teams to improve reliability and efficiency.

You will apply deep Linux expertise, automate operational tasks, and mentor teammates while guiding trade-offs and incident response. A customer‑obsessed mindset and ability to navigate ambiguity are essential.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of Linux system administration.
• Significant experience with systems automation using scripting languages.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, network and host layers.
• Experience writing technical documents and progress reports to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Identify and resolve complex outages and performance issues.
• Lead design, scoping and prioritization discussions for services.
• Automate operational processes to scale workloads.
• Create runbooks and SOPs; drive best practices across teams.

Skills

Linux system administration

Scripting with BASH, Python, Perl

Network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCPIP

Troubleshooting across app/network/OS

Technical writing and leadership

Tools

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

CloudWatch

Datadog

Grafana

Elastic

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead design, implementation and optimization of cloud infrastructure. You will work with multiple AWS services and collaborate across teams to improve reliability and efficiency.

You will apply deep Linux expertise, automate operational tasks, and mentor teammates while guiding trade-offs and incident response. A customer‑obsessed mindset and ability to navigate ambiguity are essential.