AWS Production Support Engineer

System One; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 68,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

System One is seeking an AWS Production Support Engineer in Knoxville, TN for a contract-to-hire role. You will provide monitoring and production support for AWS hosted applications and infrastructure, manage incidents, and execute runbooks.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on AWS production support, strong incident triage, Splunk and CloudWatch experience, and the ability to work 24x7 on-call. Night shifts may apply.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on AWS production support.
• Strong incident triage and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with Splunk and CloudWatch.
• Experience supporting 24x7 production environments.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow or similar ticketing.

Responsibilities

• Provide monitoring and production support for AWS hosted applications and infrastructure.
• Respond to production incidents and perform technical triage.
• Review Splunk logs and CloudWatch metrics to identify issues.
• Coordinate with support and engineering teams on incidents.
• Follow runbooks and knowledge articles to resolve issues.
• Support deployments and platform upgrades during changes.
• Work night shift coverage as required.

Skills

AWS

Incident triage

Splunk

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

GitLab

Terraform

CI/CD

24x7 support

Technical documentation

Tools

Splunk

Amazon CloudWatch

GitLab

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Job Title: AWS Production Support Engineer
Location: Knoxville, TN
Type: Contract To Hire
Compensation: $75,000.00
Work Model: Onsite – onsite
Hours: 40.0
Security Clearance: Not specified

Responsibilities

• Provide monitoring and production support for AWS hosted applications and infrastructure.
• Monitor dashboards, alerts, application health, infrastructure performance, scheduled workloads, and operational queues.
• Respond to production incidents and independently initiate technical triage.
• Review Splunk logs, dashboards, indexes, and basic SPL queries to identify potential issues.
• Use OpenTelemetry and Amazon CloudWatch logs and metrics during incident investigation.
• Troubleshoot application outages, system degradation, failed jobs, message processing issues, and infrastructure alerts.
• Execute documented recovery procedures, including message or transaction replay when required.
• Manage and update ServiceNow incidents and coordinate with the appropriate support and engineering teams.
• Follow established runbooks, Confluence documentation, and knowledge articles to resolve known issues.
• Escalate unresolved or complex issues to the appropriate application, infrastructure, database, security, or engineering team.
• Execute approved GitLab/Terraform deployment steps and predefined production changes.
• Support deployments, platform upgrades, disaster recovery, vulnerability remediation, and patching activities.
• Maintain clear documentation, incident updates, shift handoffs, and knowledge articles.
• Work independently during assigned night shift coverage while maintaining appropriate communication and escalation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands on AWS production support experience supporting cloud hosted applications and infrastructure.
• Strong incident triage and troubleshooting skills, including responding to alerts, reviewing logs, identifying probable causes, following runbooks, and escalating appropriately.
• Working knowledge of Splunk, including basic SPL queries, dashboards, indexes, and log investigation.
• Familiarity with Amazon CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry for reviewing production logs, metrics, and alerts.
• Experience supporting 24x7 production environments and the ability to work independently during overnight incidents.
• Experience with ServiceNow or a comparable incident/ticket management platform.
• Ability to follow documented recovery procedures, including message replay or similar operational recovery actions.
• Working knowledge of AWS infrastructure, applications, databases, storage, identity, and monitoring concepts.
• Familiarity with GitLab, Terraform, and CI/CD processes for executing or monitoring approved production changes.
• Ability to troubleshoot failed jobs, system degradation, service outages, scheduling failures, access issues, and deployment problems.
• Strong ownership, urgency, communication, and escalation skills.
• Ability to learn independently from runbooks, Confluence pages, and knowledge articles rather than relying solely on step by step direction.

System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.