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Amazon Systems Development Engineer , CloudWatch Infrastructure in Dublin, Ireland
Description
If you love infrastructure and automation, we are the team for you! AWS CloudWatch is blazing new trails as a pioneer in the cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Monitoring, and Log Analytics space. We are seeking a Systems Development Engineer to join the team to help us with delivery of large scale automation projects across a broad range of technical arenas.
What is AWS CloudWatch?
We run one of the largest time-series data stores on the planet monitoring more than 13 quadrillion metric observations and triggering 3.9 trillion events per month. Our teams solve problems of large telemetric data scale, distributed systems/cloud computing, data visualization, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and root cause analysis. Many of the largest web services in the world rely on our technology to drive their operational excellence. We build, operate and continually improve the CloudWatch service for both technical and business users giving them insight into what is important for them.
CloudWatch is part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) that provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Key job responsibilities
You coordinate with internal teams to uncover infrastructure improvement areas and remove them through automation.
You contribute toward the forward looking vision for the team.
You help improve operational excellence by reducing technical debt for the team.
A day in the life
Why join the CloudWatch Infrastructure team?
Huge scale and endless automation opportunities! The CloudWatch Infrastructure team operates one of the largest fleets inside of AWS, with tens of thousands of servers to ensure continued customer delight. Managing that is difficult and requires coordination with multiple internal CloudWatch teams to uncover infrastructure issues and automate them away. Working at our scale requires long term thinking, continuous innovation, large scope for new ideas, interaction with awesome team mates and never ending automation possibilities.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfilment.
About the team
We are a team of infrastructure experts who love to automate! We uncover new automation opportunities at every turn and never settle for second best. We are at our best transforming manual error prone processes into efficient easily maintainable code. We do this in an environment of collaboration between with our team, peer teams and our customers.
Inclusive Team Culture
Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Yes we do get to create and operate large services but we also think a big reason for that is the inclusive and welcoming culture we cultivate every day.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We care about your career aspirations. We want you to grow and progress inside of Amazon and will facilitate that growth through an increase in scope of the projects you work on over time.
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Dublin, D, IRL
Basic Qualifications
Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
Experience with Linux/Unix
Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
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