System Development Engineer
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced System Development Engineer to join our world-class network team in AWS. As a SysDE, you will be responsible for deploying, managing, fixing, and reinventing the tools, services, and components that network engineering relies on to automate our network and keep it operational.
About the Role
* Simplifying and reinventing systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our customers
* Providing technical solutions to real business problems in a global organization
Key Responsibilities
A SysDE is responsible for maintaining their teams' services, requiring them to troubleshoot and identify the root causes of any issues that arise within their systems and any subcomponents. A SysDE will utilise testing, monitoring, and validations on their services, tools, and infrastructure to ensure their teams can continuously deploy new versions of the services with minimal interruption.
Requirements
* Relevant experience in software development, systems engineering, SRE or DevOps roles
* Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
* Practical understanding of network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, switching, HTTP)
* Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (host networking, storage, *nix operating systems)
* Demonstrable experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, C++, C#, Java, Golang, Ruby
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with Python
* Experience of designing, developing or operating cloud services running on AWS or another cloud platform