System Development Engineer, AWS

ENGINEERINGUK; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a System Development Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in building and managing the tools that power the world's largest cloud infrastructure. This role offers the chance to innovate and simplify processes, ensuring optimal performance for network engineering. Collaborate with talented colleagues in an Agile environment, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to tackle real-world challenges. If you are passionate about engineering and eager to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing field, this is the perfect opportunity for you to thrive and grow your career.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in software development, systems engineering, or DevOps roles.
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices and network fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Simplifying and reinventing systems and processes for better customer service.
• Managing innovative tools to solve operational problems for the network.

Skills

Software Development

Systems Engineering

DevOps

Python

Networking Fundamentals

Cloud Services

Job description

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DESCRIPTION
Would you like to be an Engineer that builds the Cloud, rather than an Engineer that just uses it? At AWS, our Engineers look after the behind-the-scenes software and tools that make the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure possible.
We have an amazing opportunity for you to join a world-class network team in a dynamic environment that has the feel of a start-up. As a System Development Engineer you will help to deploy, manage, fix and reinvent the tools, services and components that network engineering rely on to automate our network and keep it operational. Your internal customers are your network engineer colleagues, and through close collaboration, support and exchange of ideas, we share a common goal to serve our external customers and grow through learning and innovation.
If you are exceptionally motivated and passionate about the work you do then we welcome you to join us, working in an Agile environment with the most advanced tools, processes and talented people in the industry to make the Cloud a reality.

What you'll be working on:

1. Simplifying and reinventing systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our customers
2. Managing and growing innovative, production-quality tools to solve real operational problems for our network
3. Investigating technical issues scientifically and thoroughly, and assist in fixing them so they don't come back
4. Providing technical solutions to real business problems in a global organization

Top reasons to join our team:

1. Be a catalyst to deliver truly disruptive products that are growing rapidly
2. Define, build, own, and run a service in a high growth environment
3. Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services
4. Learning from industry recognized Amazon distinguished engineers

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Relevant experience in software development, systems engineering, SRE or DevOps roles
• Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations. Practical understanding of network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, switching, HTTP)
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (host networking, storage, *nix operating systems). Demonstrable experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, C++, C#, Java, Golang, Ruby

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience with Python
• Experience of designing, developing or operating cloud services running on AWS or another cloud platform

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.