AWS is seeking engineers with solid Linux, system administration, or scripting knowledge to own and advance a mission critical service in our Dedicated Clouds (ADC). This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's engineering team supporting our Relational Database Services and Platform infrastructure in Seattle, WA.
This role will pair you with some of our brightest engineers and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career.
AWS is building some of the largest distributed systems in the world. Come be part of the team that makes these purpose-built databases solve our Intelligence Community missions!
This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. The position further requires the candidate to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.
Key job responsibilities
You will design and build the operational scalability that sustains the platform's remarkable growth. You will measure your success and it will be visible.
The ideal candidate will:
-Our company credo is "Work hard. Have fun. Make history". The right candidate will love what they do and instinctively know how to make work fun.
- Have strong Linux fundamentals. The ideal candidate will have experience working with Linux. You regularly take part in deep-dive troubleshooting and conduct technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues.
- Be Coachable. The ideal candidate is eager to learn. We look for good fundamentals and build both technical and organizational skills.
- High school or equivalent diploma, or A+ or CND (Certified Network Defender) or Network+ or Security+
- 1+ years of systems administration experience (Linux/Windows).
- Experience working with scripting languages.
- In lieu of above relevant work experience, degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
- 1+ years experience with cloud computing technologies.
- 1+ years of networking experience.
- 1+ years of experience with support procedures and methodologies for production computing environments.
- Experience troubleshooting production systems.
- Experience with performance and log analysis.
