Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineer, S3
Managing trillions of objects in storage, retrieving them in sub-x ms, building software that deploys to tens of thousands of hosts, achieving 99.
999999999% (you didn't read that wrong, that's 11 nines!) durability.
These are just a few of the numbers that give you a sense of the scale of the exciting problems you will find every day working in Simple Storage Service (S3) and Glacier.
Amazon S3 powers businesses across the globe that make the lives of consumers better daily and our team is bringing that capability to US Intelligence Agencies.
As a Senior ADC Engineer in S3 and Glacier Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineering, you get to deliver these capabilities and delight our customers through teams of talented engineers and leaders.
The S3 and Glacier ADC Engineering team is looking for candidates motivated to solve complex challenges, simplifying delivery S3 and Glacier capabilities to our US Intelligence Community and Defense agency customers.
The team has the unique perspective of operating all of S3 and Glacier, instead of the software components.
This enables our team to drive cross organization initiatives to remove operational hurdles, optimize software delivery, and remove bottle necks felt by all of AWS.
Engineers on this diverse team enjoy diving deep into root causes of issues, automating manual tasks, and continually raising the bar to improve the customer experience.
This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
In AWS, if you build it, you own it.
S3 is a highly available 7x24 worldwide service requiring dedicated support from our engineering teams.
We pride ourselves on a high level of ownership in the work we do.
This means we hold a high bar for test automation, verification processes, design and code reviews to ensure that our systems meet the exacting standards our customers demand.
We maintain a regular on-call rotation across our teams with engineers and managers all taking part to resolve the inevitable issues that arise.
We work hard to minimize getting paged in the middle of the night as we recognize that a well-rested employee is a productive employee.
Upon joining S3 Glacier ADC Engineering, every employee is paired with a peer buddy who will help you to quickly come up to speed in understanding the technology we're building, the tools we use and the business problems we're trying to solve.
We hire exceptional people and we recognize the importance of coaching others.
We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, and job level.
On our internal Broadcast video streaming website, you'll find countless presentations by some of the brightest minds in computing discussing solutions to many of the exciting problems we're solving in AWS today with new live-streaming videos added every week.
We have a diverse team and drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment.
Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds.
Our team members are active in Amazon's 10
affinity groups, sometimes known as employee resource groups, which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world.
These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network (BEN), Amazon Women in Engineering (AWE) and Glamazon (our LGBTQ
community).
This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.
5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs.
Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.
By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time.
Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.
Key job responsibilitiesA Senior ADC Engineer is able to solve complex problems where the problem may not be fully understood and the solution is not understood.
They can mitigate operational risks, remove software blockers, and design appropriately simple solutions that address constraints.
They use their high judgement to create sustainable long term solutions to address systemic operational, scaling, or resiliency risks across teams.
Their knowledge of technical domains has depth and breadth across hardware, software, networking, Linux, security, cloud implementations, operating at scale, etc.
Successful engineers in this role proactively drive preventative measures before it causes impact.
When existing processes can be optimized, they adopt, create, or refine automation.
They are effective at working across teams to build consensus to resolve challenges, while articulating tradeoffs and risks for proposed solutions.
They are expected to mentor, document, train junior, and develop engineers inside and outside of the team.
A day in the lifeOn a typical day, our engineers may dive deep to find the root cause of a customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending in the wrong direction, or discuss radical new approaches to automate operational processes.
As a member of our team you will join a dedicated group of engineers who provide troubleshooting and operations support, and innovate to automate operational tasks.
You will be able to take a defined project, break down the work to help define milestones, and feedback mechanisms.
You identify when implementations are not highly available or have defects; you investigate systemic patterns.
You resolve, mitigate, or escalate operational concerns in a timely manner.
About the teamHere at AWS, we embrace our differences.
We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion.
We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.
We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.
Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
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 fulfillment.
We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members.
We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.
We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Annapolis Junction, MD, USA.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
999999999% (you didn't read that wrong, that's 11 nines!) durability.
These are just a few of the numbers that give you a sense of the scale of the exciting problems you will find every day working in Simple Storage Service (S3) and Glacier.
Amazon S3 powers businesses across the globe that make the lives of consumers better daily and our team is bringing that capability to US Intelligence Agencies.
As a Senior ADC Engineer in S3 and Glacier Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineering, you get to deliver these capabilities and delight our customers through teams of talented engineers and leaders.
The S3 and Glacier ADC Engineering team is looking for candidates motivated to solve complex challenges, simplifying delivery S3 and Glacier capabilities to our US Intelligence Community and Defense agency customers.
The team has the unique perspective of operating all of S3 and Glacier, instead of the software components.
This enables our team to drive cross organization initiatives to remove operational hurdles, optimize software delivery, and remove bottle necks felt by all of AWS.
Engineers on this diverse team enjoy diving deep into root causes of issues, automating manual tasks, and continually raising the bar to improve the customer experience.
This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
In AWS, if you build it, you own it.
S3 is a highly available 7x24 worldwide service requiring dedicated support from our engineering teams.
We pride ourselves on a high level of ownership in the work we do.
This means we hold a high bar for test automation, verification processes, design and code reviews to ensure that our systems meet the exacting standards our customers demand.
We maintain a regular on-call rotation across our teams with engineers and managers all taking part to resolve the inevitable issues that arise.
We work hard to minimize getting paged in the middle of the night as we recognize that a well-rested employee is a productive employee.
Upon joining S3 Glacier ADC Engineering, every employee is paired with a peer buddy who will help you to quickly come up to speed in understanding the technology we're building, the tools we use and the business problems we're trying to solve.
We hire exceptional people and we recognize the importance of coaching others.
We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, and job level.
On our internal Broadcast video streaming website, you'll find countless presentations by some of the brightest minds in computing discussing solutions to many of the exciting problems we're solving in AWS today with new live-streaming videos added every week.
We have a diverse team and drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment.
Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds.
Our team members are active in Amazon's 10
affinity groups, sometimes known as employee resource groups, which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world.
These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network (BEN), Amazon Women in Engineering (AWE) and Glamazon (our LGBTQ
community).
This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.
5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs.
Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.
By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time.
Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.
Key job responsibilitiesA Senior ADC Engineer is able to solve complex problems where the problem may not be fully understood and the solution is not understood.
They can mitigate operational risks, remove software blockers, and design appropriately simple solutions that address constraints.
They use their high judgement to create sustainable long term solutions to address systemic operational, scaling, or resiliency risks across teams.
Their knowledge of technical domains has depth and breadth across hardware, software, networking, Linux, security, cloud implementations, operating at scale, etc.
Successful engineers in this role proactively drive preventative measures before it causes impact.
When existing processes can be optimized, they adopt, create, or refine automation.
They are effective at working across teams to build consensus to resolve challenges, while articulating tradeoffs and risks for proposed solutions.
They are expected to mentor, document, train junior, and develop engineers inside and outside of the team.
A day in the lifeOn a typical day, our engineers may dive deep to find the root cause of a customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending in the wrong direction, or discuss radical new approaches to automate operational processes.
As a member of our team you will join a dedicated group of engineers who provide troubleshooting and operations support, and innovate to automate operational tasks.
You will be able to take a defined project, break down the work to help define milestones, and feedback mechanisms.
You identify when implementations are not highly available or have defects; you investigate systemic patterns.
You resolve, mitigate, or escalate operational concerns in a timely manner.
About the teamHere at AWS, we embrace our differences.
We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion.
We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.
We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.
Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
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 fulfillment.
We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members.
We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.
We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Annapolis Junction, MD, USA.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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