Systems Engineering, Amazon

• You should enjoy digging deep to find answers, sometimes this will require reverse engineering existing solutions, a situation you thrive in
• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
• Extensive experience with Windows Server
• Experience years of experience with virtualization (Hyper-V, VMware, etc)
• Extensive experience with relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Extensive scripting experience (Power-Shell most preferred, Python useful, Bash, Perl, Ruby, etc also acceptable)
• Successful applicants must have the legal right to work in Ireland

Desirable

• Amazon Security is looking for a driven professional to join its systems engineering team to manage the operation of our physical access control system (PACS), as well as help us automate a sustainable and robust architecture for future growth
• As a system engineer, you will be responsible for the overall health of our service and provide excellent customer service to our partners
• You will create availability and health metrics, monitor performance, perform regular system maintenance, and architect innovative solutions for running a PACS in a large distributed environment
• You will automate routine tasks enabling the team to be quick and agile
• You'll be one of our experts in system automation
• You’ll work closely with internal customers to understand their operational challenges and provide helpful solutions
• This position will require participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation
• We primarily support Windows server, using HyperV for virtualization, but in recent months our scope of infrastructure expertise has broadened from bare metal hosts/VMs to solutions that run on Native AWS Services
• Our team has a core function of ensuring Lenel application and system stability, often diving deep to trouble-shoot common issues, as well as anomalies, working closely with our partners
• On a day-to-day basis, we strive for engineering and operational excellence through patching, and other security compliance activities, along with deploying scripting/automation solutions to build servers and monitor their performance
• In the coming months, we are looking to reduce tech debt by replacing legacy servers and upgrading our version of Lenel to increase system stability and support down-stream applications that rely on our service to perform with a higher level of availability
• Engineers will have the opportunity to prepare our current systems for company-wide upgrade and design new automated deployment solutions, as well as refresh how we monitor
• We also need to solve for improved methods of certificate rotation and license upgrades that are automated for our team and seamless to end-users
• AWS-SOC Systems Engineering (SE) team within AWS Security delivers physical security systems to enable our internal customers to execute their jobs safely, securely, and maintain trust
• As our services grow and expand, we are doing the same with our team
• We have a high degree of technical acumen but still learn every day in pursuit of providing the highest value to our customers
• The most amazing thing about our team is the way we all enable each other for success and constantly strive to raise the bar in everything we do