Amazon Jobs Near Me in Cape Town, Western Cape, SA – Senior Systems Engineer

Job Summary

Do you get excited about solving challenging problems with global scale? Come join our team of innovative software developers that are building a next generation infrastructure management service that will help internal AWS teams continue to scale and manage their global service footprint. You will have a wide reach as your customers are internal AWS teams located all around the world.

Key job responsibilities

As an experienced Systems Engineer, you have a role to play on a multi-disciplinary software development team operating and developing high quality software designs and implementing solutions autonomously to address the ambiguous challenges we encounter. You will interact with engineers and business owners across the company and work with an interdisciplinary team to design and scope solutions and to identify patterns that affect the performance, reliability, or availability of our systems and create automation that simplifies workloads that scale operations. You will also help recruit and interview for your team and mentor to develop others.

A day in the life

At Amazon, we believe learning is never done. You will have access to extensive training material that covers all dimensions of the AWS tools and will be presented with opportunities to leverage and contribute to internal communities, demos and knowledge sharing sessions to assist you in reaching your career goals. Our team is welcoming and supportive towards new team members through mentoring and coaching. Having career and growth opportunities is a priority, and we have clear growth paths for our technical roles. You will partner with your manager to define and track your career plan.

About The Team

Most of our team is based in Cape Town. Under normal circumstances, we mostly work from the office, but you will have the flexibility to manage your own time. Occasionally we work with our colleagues across the world meaning we accommodate different time-zones. This position involves on-call responsibilities. We continuously prioritize efforts to automate ourselves out of operational responsibilities to ensure the impact is minimal.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and curious engineer to join us operating and building this foundational service. Apply now and come build with us!

Basic Qualifications

• BSC in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems
• 5+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Dev Ops Engineer or equivalent
• 2+ years of experience leveraging Dev Ops automation, build automation and configuration management tools
• 2+ years of experience implementing and administering AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS and Dynamo DB etc.
• Experience with common networking protocols and services including TCP, UDP, DNS, and HTTP
• Experience mentoring and developing junior engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with typical server provisioning systems
• Experience with Agile SCRUM or Kanban
• Hands-on experience building monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and metrics reporting
• Experience implementing DevOps concepts, tools, processes, and culture
• Practical scripting experience in using shell scripting and languages like Perl, Python, or Ruby to integrate tools and systems with APIs
• Experience with large, distributed systems and related technologies focusing on automation

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

Company – Amazon Dev Centre South Africa

Job ID: A2222486