Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering Reli

$81,900 - $152,000/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

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About the position

The Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineer role within the Infrastructure Engineering Reliability team focuses on supporting the Intelligence Community's mission by ensuring the highest availability, scalability, and security of AWS services. The position involves collaborating with a diverse team to maintain and improve AWS infrastructure, while also providing operational support and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Support software services before they go live in Amazon Dedicated Clouds through activities such as testing, integration, and establishing key infrastructure.
• Maintain software services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability and overall health of the environment.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms, automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Actively involved in hiring and building the AWS team.
• Effective communication with internal customers, coordinating between teams, developers, and escalation points.
• Periodically support a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Requirements

• High school or equivalent diploma, or A+ or CND (Certified Network Defender) or Network+ or Security+ certification.
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• 5+ years of administrative experience with Linux or cloud platform environments.
• Ability to read, understand, and utilize existing scripts.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with AWS CLI and/or AWS Console and familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, EBS, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, etc.
• Database familiarity with MySQL and Dynamo DB, or similar engines.
• Scripting experience with Python, Ruby, and/or Bash.
• Experience with hardware troubleshooting and device familiarity.
• Experience managing/administrating remote systems in virtualized enterprise environments.
• Basic certifications in applicable field eg. A+/Net+/Sec+/CCNA/LPIC/Linux+/AWS certs.
• In-depth knowledge of, and experience with networking technologies and exposure to software development support.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits packages.
• Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation.
• Flexible working culture to support work-life balance.