Systems Development Engineer

Amazon.com, Inc; Dublin; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud computing company is seeking experienced systems development engineers for their European Sovereign Cloud initiative. This role involves overseeing the launch of cloud services for EU customers and requires collaboration with teams to enhance service reliability and performance. Candidates should have experience with Infrastructure as Code and must reside in the EU. The company provides relocation support, promotes diversity, and offers an opportunity to contribute to impactful projects in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
• Candidate must be a national of an EU member state and residing in the EU.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (such as CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Oversee the launch of the European Sovereign Cloud.
• Collaborate with global AWS teams.
• Improve availability, reliability, latency, performance, and efficiency.

Job description

Overview

Proven experience in software development or related field with proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Typescript, Python, or Ruby. Demonstrated experience in engineering, working with hardware, software, networking, and operating systems. Solid understanding of Linux and networking, and the ability to troubleshoot and anticipate problems that affect the performance, reliability, or availability of software systems.

Responsibilities

AWS is set to introduce the inaugural European Sovereign Cloud (ESC). To spearhead this initiative, we are actively seeking experienced systems development 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.

Your responsibilities will encompass overseeing the launch 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, you are invited 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 S3 and EC2—to continually released new product innovations that differentiate AWS services and features 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.

A day in the life: 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’ll spend roughly 50% of your time operating production systems and 50% working with your team to make long-term improvements to the reliability, availability, and performance of those software systems. Over the course of a week, you will root cause why some deployments recently failed, and fix those bugs. Later in the week you may execute a highly sensitive time-critical change to production. You can round off the week by participating in design discussions with another team, writing code, and providing actionable feedback to your team's code. You will be required to occasionally participate in on-call rotations to resolve incidents occurring out-of-hours.

Qualifications

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
• Candidate must be a national of an EU member state and residing 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.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (such as CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar).

About the Team & Culture

Diversity and inclusion are valued. AWS encourages candidates to apply even if they do not meet all preferred qualifications or skills. We celebrate varied experiences and paths.

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