Systems Engineer (AWS)

About the role

Transforming the world—making it safer, more ethical, and ensuring every voice is heard. NAVEX is one of the fastest-growing companies supporting customers around the world, and we believe great things are waiting for you on our team!

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain a secure high availability cloud infrastructure
• Design, deploy, and manage containers and orchestration technologies
• Design and implement AWS security policies and best practices
• Design and implement observability infrastructure including logging, traceability, alarms, and billing alerts
• Support AWS cost management and optimization
• Collaborate with DevOps to design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure and applications
• Deploy and manage Windows and/or Linux servers on-prem and in the cloud
• Build, support and troubleshoot IIS, AWS services, Tomcat or Apache web servers
• Provide application support, patch management, performance tuning and monitoring for our SaaS products
• Maintain system backups and own your system and application documentation for process improvement
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation with some off-hour and weekend support
• Lead cross-layer incident investigation — trace production issues across WAF, load balancer, application, and database tiers to identify root cause

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience; IT Certification desired
• 5+ years of web server experience, including production troubleshooting
• 2+ years AWS experience with administration, configuration, performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of AWS networking technologies and AWS Security
• Strong understanding of CloudFormation and Terraform
• Hands-on experience with Windows and/or Linux operating systems including troubleshooting all aspects of the server operating environment
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Basic understanding of LAN/WAN network architecture, TCP/IP, protocols, and best practices
• The ability to learn new systems and technologies quickly
• Absolutely outstanding organization skills and attention to detail

Qualifications

• Culture Agility. Comfort working in a fast-paced, candid environment that values innovation, healthy debate, and follow-through
• AI Readiness. Curiosity and willingness to use AI and emerging technologies to elevate your work and deliver smarter outcomes
• Fuel performance and outcomes. Leverage your job competencies and champion NAVEX’s core values

Skills

• Experience with any of the following technologies:
• AWS Services: EC2, S3, Autoscaling, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, IAM security, Networking, GuardDuty, Lambda, ECS
• Operating Systems: Windows Server, Linux
• Hypervisor: OLVM
• Configuration Management: Puppet
• Messaging: RabbitMQ
• Messaging: Kafka
• Messaging: ActiveMQ
• Messaging: Redis
• Messaging: Ravelry
• Messaging: RabbitMQ
• Messaging: Kafka
• Messaging: ActiveMQ
• Messaging: Redis
• Messaging: Ravelry
• Monitoring and Logging: CheckMK, New Relic, Logstash, OpenSearch, PagerDuty
• Web Servers: IIS, Apache/Tomcat
• Single Sign-On: SAML
• Networking: Imperva (WAF/CDN), Palo Alto firewalls, routing, switching, VLANs
• Load Balancers: F5, Apache
• Databases: PostgreSQL (RDS), Microsoft SQL Server
• Storage: NetApp (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC)
• Infrastructure & OS/VM Deployment: Terraform
• Version Control: GitLab, Git
• Scripting: Python, Bash, Ruby, PowerShell

Benefits

Discover how you can grow, lead, and make an impact by visiting our career page to learn more. NAVEX is an equal opportunity employer committed to including individuals of all backgrounds, including those with disabilities and veteran status.

Pay

The starting pay for this role is $90,000 per annum.