Systems Development Engineer, Region Services

Amazon; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud computing provider in London seeks a Systems Development Engineer to pioneer automated builds and deployments of Windows-based services. You will be part of a dynamic team focused on operational excellence and innovation. The ideal candidate has strong systems engineering knowledge, software development experience, and proficiency in modern programming languages. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a rapidly evolving environment.

Qualifications

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development.
• Hands-on systems engineering experience.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language.

Responsibilities

• Pioneer automated build and deployment of Windows services.
• Drive operational excellence and cross environment parity.

Skills

Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals

Professional software development experience

Designing or architecting systems

Experience in networking and storage systems

Programming with modern languages

Tools

Ansible

Powershell

JavaScript/Typescript

Job description

Would you like to help implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the most complex technical problems? Are you excited by the prospect of building and running the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure to provide a better world for future generations?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) builds and operates some of the largest internet infrastructure on the planet; providing companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS, customers provision compute power, storage, database, and other cloud resources as their business demands them.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart 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.

If you join us, you'll be part of a world-class team in a dynamic environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain world class experience in cloud computing.

Top reasons to join our team:

• Be a catalyst to deliver truly disruptive products that are growing rapidly
• Define, build, own, and run services in high growth environments
• Solve unique and first-order problems to enable our internal teams to deliver for our customers
• Build and operate distributed systems
• Design and build the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services

Key job responsibilities: The Systems Development engineer will be a key member of a new team pioneering automated build and deployment of Windows based services. The team is adopting a code-first and hands off CI/CD based approach to drive operational excellence and cross environment parity.

Basic Qualifications

Requirements:
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred:
- Experience with Ansible (preferred), Powershell or Javascript/Typescript

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