Systems Engineer

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

- Understand how commodity servers, operating systems and networks function, perform and scale. - Possess superb troubleshooting and problem analysis skills. - Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation. - Design systems management solutions using automation and self-repair rather than relying on alarming and human intervention. - Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact. - Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification and automation. - Avoid re-inventing the wheel and prefer appropriately simple, repeatable solutions over more complex and failure prone ones. - Act as a technical point of escalation & mentor for junior staff. - Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources. - Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency.

**Basic Qualifications** - 3+ years relevant work experience - Experience deploying and operating Linux or other UNIX variants in a datacenter environment. - Experience with server hardware management across multiple vendors. - Experience in automation via shell scripting/Perl/Python/Ruby programming. - Standard internet protocols (VPN, IKE, IPSec, Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, SSL, DNS, HTTP, etc.) - Experience with security best practices in server configuration, tool development, and access controls. - Previous experience with network automation (e.g. automated provisioning and remote configuration of switches and routers; flow-based analysis and predictive modeling of traffic in dynamic routing environments.) **Preferred Qualifications** - Bachelors degree - Experience deploying or managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments. - Experience with capacity planning, utilization review & performance monitoring.