Systems Engineer

  • Amazon Web Services, Inc.
  • Seattle, Washington
  • 09/10/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineer to design, automate, and support highly available, secure AWS-based environments. In this role, you will build and maintain scalable infrastructure, implement Infrastructure as Code, and optimize performance, reliability, and cost for large-scale cloud workloads. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, troubleshoot complex production issues, and apply AWS and Linux expertise to deliver customer-obsessed solutions. AWS offers a fast-paced, learning-focused culture where you'll tackle impactful technical challenges and grow your cloud engineering skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure cloud systems on AWSAutomate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and monitoring
  • Collaborate with software, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable services
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root cause analysis
  • Optimize performance, availability, and cost across AWS environments
  • Implement security, compliance, and backup/recovery best practices
  • Create and maintain technical documentation and runbooks
  • Contribute to architecture reviews and long-term systems roadmap

Required Skills

  • AWS infrastructure design and operations
  • Linux/UNIX system administration
  • Infrastructure as Code (Cloud
  • Formation, Terraform)
  • CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Code
  • Pipeline, Jenkins, Git
  • Hub Actions)
  • Monitoring and logging (Cloud
  • Watch, Prometheus, ELK)
  • Networking (VPC, DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing)
  • Scripting/automation (Python, Bash, Power
  • Shell)
  • Security best practices and IAM management
  • Backup, recovery, and high availability design
  • Performance tuning and capacity planning