Systems Automation Engineer, Data Center Availability Team

Amazon • Seattle, WA

17d

About The Position

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation
of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the
cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage,
networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have
continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging
problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re
looking for talented people who want to help.

The Data Center Availability team works with the hundreds of AWS data centers
around the globe to deliver the highest quality and lowest cost physical
security, availability, capacity, and scaling results for our customers. Our aim
is to standardize operations globally by delivering tools, policy, processes and
procedures to our internal teams. The Availability tech team is seeking a System
Engineer to design, develop, and implement software tools that streamline
operations by automating tedious manual processes.

Requirements

• 4+ years of building scripts, tooling, and automation for large-scale computing environments experience
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing and developing scripts to automate operational burdens and reviewing scripting changes to ensure they meet the standards for maintainability, scalability and security

Responsibilities

• Design software tools using advanced automation methods such as Agentic AI
• Work with business stakeholders to understand the opportunities to automate the manual work and streamline the process
• Develop and maintain software pipelines using best practices for smooth production code release.
• Suggest and implement best practices for coding, design and operational excellence.
• Mentor engineers and develop them

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level