System Admin/Engineer II, AWS Outposts

DESCRIPTION:

A Systems Engineer II is a seasoned professional who joins a fast-moving team responsible for deploying, operating, and scaling massive always-on distributed systems serving production workloads for AWS customers.
This role goes far beyond basic system administration-it's instrumental in building and maintaining highly secure, reliable, and available systems that function at massive scale.

Key job responsibilities
-Troubleshoot, reproduce, and solve challenging operational issues in complex enterprise environments running fleets of server instances across multiple AWS regions
-Develop utilities and tools for internal use that enable safe, high-speed operations at wide scale
-Draft scripts that facilitate automation and system self-repair, not just detection and alarming
-Demonstrate cross-team impact with lasting influence across multiple teams, geographies, or entire business units
-Determine root causes for issues and develop automated solutions to prevent recurrence



About the team
The AWS Outposts team builds and delivers fully managed infrastructure that extends AWS services, APIs, and tools to customer data centers and on-premises facilities. They provide physical rack-mounted hardware that runs native AWS services locally while maintaining seamless connectivity to the cloud.

This enables customers to meet low-latency requirements, address data residency needs, and run workloads on-premises using the same AWS experience they use in the cloud. The team handles deployment, maintenance, and updates, allowing organizations to build hybrid architectures with consistent tooling across environments.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- 4+ years of site reliability engineering (SRE), systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration experience
- 5+ years of Linux experience
- 5+ years of systems engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
- Experience in site reliability engineering (SRE), systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration
- Experience working with Linux
- Experience in systems engineering
- Experience in any of the following: Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Bash, Shell or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Knowledge of TCP/IP and networking protocols such as HTTP and DNS
- Experience designing and developing scripts to automate operational burdens and reviewing scripting changes to ensure they meet the standards for maintainability, scalability and security
- Experience working in 24/7 production environment
- Experience with service-oriented architecture and web services
- Experience maintaining the resilience and reliability of services by troubleshooting deployment failures, creating infrastructure as code, creating resources (alarms, metrics, IAM role credentials), infrastructure provisioning and patching hosts

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 104,500.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually