Linux Support Engineer – AWS

The Elastic Block Store (EBS) group within Amazon Web Services is looking for a Linux Support Engineer who will help us deliver the next generation of industry leading storage service architected for the cloud. If selected, you will be a part of a team that architects, designs, and implements highly scalable distributed storage systems that provide availability, reliability and performance guarantees. As a member of the Operations team within EBS, you will get an opportunity to:

• Monitor the health of the fleet, automating system health, maintenance tasks, and reporting systems as needed
• Perform system maintenance tasks (your hands get dirty here), including configuration of new machines
• Develop or improve existing application and system management tools and processes that reduce manual efforts and increase overall efficiency
• Manage directly assigned tasks and on-call duties gracefully

Why work for EBS?

• Make Huge Impact : Elastic Block Store is one of the largest and fastest growing services within AWS. It is being used by thousands of developers from companies around the world.
• Breadth of Technology : Predictable performance under extreme load, full life-cycle hardware management, fault tolerance to large scale events, worldwide distributed systems management, are just some of the problems you will work on.
• Wear many hats : Take responsibility for technical design, implementation, and operations.

This position requires that applicant selected be a U.S. citizen and obtain and maintain a TS/SCI US Government clearance with polygraph. TS/SCI eligibility is not required to start; however, the applicant selected will be subject to a Single-Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified national security information. Applicants with a current SSBI, SBPR, or PPR, may be eligible for crossover in accordance with ICPG 704.4.

Basic Qualifications
Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 4 years of industry experience focused on Linux.
• Proficiency in using the typical Linux toolbox of open source software and management tools.
• Scripting proficiency with shell, Perl, Python, or Ruby.

This position requires that applicant selected be a U.S. citizen and obtain and maintain a TS/SCI US Government clearance with polygraph. TS/SCI eligibility is not required to start; however, the applicant selected will be subject to a Single-Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified national security information. Applicants with a current SSBI, SBPR, or PPR, may be eligible for crossover in accordance with ICPG 704.4.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiar with configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, Saltstack, or Ansible
• Experience with mission critical, 24×7 systems
• Deep understanding of Linux
• Excellent understanding of networking protocols
• Have a comfortable understanding of Linux and networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, TLS.
• Have used AWS or similar solutions to drive automation

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS cloud. Each Amazon EBS volume is automatically replicated within its Availability Zone to protect you from component failure, offering high availability and durability. Amazon EBS volumes offer the consistent and low-latency performance needed to run your workloads. With Amazon EBS, you can scale your usage up or down within minutes—all while paying a low price for only what you provision.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

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