Amazon - Great Falls, VA
posted 5 months ago
About the position
This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's world-class Database and Analytics focused technical team in Denver, CO, working with some of the best and brightest engineers and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere. A successful engineer joining the team will do much more than write code and triage problems. You will work with Amazon's largest and most demanding customers to address specific needs across a full suite of services. You will dive deep into technical issues and work diligently to improve the customer experience. By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work. 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.
Responsibilities
- Help U.S. Intelligence Community and Defense agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve unique technical problems.
- Own and advance mission-critical services in Amazon Dedicated Clouds (ADC).
- Work with Amazon's largest customers to address specific needs across a full suite of services.
- Dive deep into technical issues and work diligently to improve the customer experience.
Requirements
- Associate's degree, or Cloud+ or GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner)
- 3+ years of systems administration experience (Linux/Windows).
- Experience working with Scripting languages.
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.
Nice-to-haves
- 3+ years experience with cloud computing technologies.
- 3+ years of networking experience.
- 3+ years of experience with support procedures and methodologies for production computing environments.
- Experience automating routine tasks.
- Experience troubleshooting production systems.
- Experience with performance and log analysis.
Benefits
- Flexible schedule to promote work-life balance.
- Mentorship and career growth opportunities.
- Inclusive team culture with employee-led affinity groups.
