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Systems Engineer

Amazon Web Services, Inc.Seattle, Washington🇺🇸United StatesPosted 10 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Systems Engineer role at Amazon Web Services offers an exceptional opportunity to design and automate highly available, secure cloud environments, fostering significant career growth in cutting-edge cloud technologies. You'll thrive here if you possess strong AWS and Linux expertise, enjoy tackling complex technical challenges, and are eager to collaborate with a dynamic team to deliver customer-obsessed solutions. Apply now to build your skills in a renowned tech company and contribute to impactful projects.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
ShellAWSELKLoad BalancingTCP/IPBashDNSGitJenkinsPrometheusPythonTerraform

Job Description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineer to design, automate, and support highly available, secure AWS-based environments. In this role, you will build and maintain scalable infrastructure, implement Infrastructure as Code, and optimize performance, reliability, and cost for large-scale cloud workloads. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, troubleshoot complex production issues, and apply AWS and Linux expertise to deliver customer-obsessed solutions. AWS offers a fast-paced, learning-focused culture where you'll tackle impactful technical challenges and grow your cloud engineering skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure cloud systems on AWSAutomate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and monitoring
  • Collaborate with software, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable services
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root cause analysis
  • Optimize performance, availability, and cost across AWS environments
  • Implement security, compliance, and backup/recovery best practices
  • Create and maintain technical documentation and runbooks
  • Contribute to architecture reviews and long-term systems roadmap

Required Skills

  • AWS infrastructure design and operations
  • Linux/UNIX system administration
  • Infrastructure as Code (Cloud
  • Formation, Terraform)
  • CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Code
  • Pipeline, Jenkins, Git
  • Hub Actions)
  • Monitoring and logging (Cloud
  • Watch, Prometheus, ELK)
  • Networking (VPC, DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing)
  • Scripting/automation (Python, Bash, Power
  • Shell)
  • Security best practices and IAM management
  • Backup, recovery, and high availability design
  • Performance tuning and capacity planning

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