Optics Systems Engineer, Optics Systems Engineering

About the role

Amazon Optics mission is to deliver a safe and secure workplace for all Amazonians. The Systems Engineering team within Optics develops, implements and maintains the technology and infrastructure that supports the critical physical security systems for Amazon Corporate Security (ACS) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Deep dive to root cause of a customer issue
• Investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way
• Consult with the top engineers at Amazon
• Discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues
• Work with the development team to automate manual tasks and on tooling to enhance fleet maintenance
• Investigate issues that impact major services and work to solve them before they impact customers
• Dive deep into service interdependencies and region-specific configurations to find the root of a problem
• Study and continuously learn from industry recognized engineers

Requirements

The Systems Engineer Can Look Forward To:

• Investigating new ways to improve operations and defining new solutions to solve technically complex issues

Qualifications

• 4+ years of site reliability engineering (SRE), systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration experience
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
• Experience in site reliability engineering (SRE), systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration
• Experience in systems engineering
• Knowledge of TCP/IP and networking protocols such as HTTP and DNS
• Experience designing and developing scripts to automate operational burdens and reviewing scripting changes to ensure they meet the standards for maintainability, scalability and security
• Experience working in 24/7 production environment
• Experience with service-oriented architecture and web services