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Systems Engineer - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Workflow


Are you a coding maven who wants to bring automation and efficiency to high-scale distributed systems in Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Are you intrigued by the promise of rapid development of asynchronous applications in the cloud? Do you want to be part of a revolution in stateless computing? If you are, we want you to join our Amazon Simple Workflow service (http://aws.amazon.com/swf/). We are the next generation of distributed, fault-tolerant asynchronous applications in the cloud. We have high standards for our computer systems as well as our employees. Our systems are highly reliable, highly available, and turn scale into an advantage for our business and an asset to our customers. Our team members are super smart, driven to serve customers, and fun to work with. The successful Systems Engineer/Administrator joining the Simple Workflow team will be instrumental in deploying, operating, and scaling a massive always-on distributed system that is part of an entirely new software development approach. We are looking for a seasoned Systems Engineer/Administrators to join our world of workflow orchestration in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

• BS Computer Science or other technical degree and/or related experience
• Minimum of 3 years of Perl or UNIX scripting experience
• Minimum of 1 year development of systems management and administration automation in a high level scripting language (PerlPythonRuby) or Java
• US citizenship required

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TCP network troubleshooting and administration
• Experience in a 24/7 production environment
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Experience with systems management and monitoring software (home-grown or commercially available)
• Automation or monitoring framework experience, deployment or development
• Experience with very large distributed systems such as multi-terabyte storage farms, and/or horizontally scaled request processing fleets
• Experience with NoSQL data storage preferred
• B.S. degree in Computer Science, MIS, CIS, or a related field

How to Apply