Amazon Web Services Looking for Systems Development Engineer , AWS Honeycode at British Columbia Full Time

Description

Job summary

The mission for Honeycode is to enable millions of users to build mobile and web applications easily and efficiently without needing programming skills, to empower team collaboration and innovation. Low Code/No Code is still at its early stage and at AWS we are uniquely positioned to redefine what it means and make it mainstream with our hyper focus on customers. With the V1 product just launched in June 2020, we are at Day One of the new journey for the years to come to innovate and disrupt with new ideas and challenge status quo, to transform industries and change how people work, at a very large scale. We have a startup-like environment, a mission to achieve, and no time to lose!

As a Systems Development Engineer on the team, you will be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing. You’ll be surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about technology, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. You will design and build the operational scalability that sustains the relentless growth of Amazon.

Our ideal candidate is highly autonomous, possesses strong verbal and written communication skills, adapts quickly to new technologies, and has high career growth potential. There are ample opportunities, and we want you to make use of it! The desire and ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment is essential.

Are you up for the challenge? If so, we want to talk to you about joining us on this incredible team!

Basic Qualifications

• Experience scripting in modern program languages.

• Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems.

• Excellent communication, organizational and analytical skills.

• Strong degree of empathy for the customer experience.

• Ability to solve problems under pressure, and quickly learn technical concepts with a strong sense of urgency and prioritization.

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field

• 3+ years experience in supporting large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services;

• 3+ experience programming in either of the following: Python, Java

• 3+ years troubleshooting systemic problems in a Linux/Unix environment.

• Strong understanding of operational processes and systems – SLAs, handling tickets, monitoring, automation processes and metrics.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a related field or equivalent professional experience.

Key job responsibilities

Key job responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Scaling up/down the infrastructure which leverages a myriad of complex/connected services.

• Develop, maintain, and supports tools and automation based around operational processes used to manage the infrastructure and services.

• Developing tools to automate the deployment, management, and monitoring of infrastructure

• Automating and simplify

• Identify and mitigate operational and security risks

• Design and develop tools and mechanisms to help root cause and troubleshoot system failures at scale

• Review system designs, identify gaps and mitigate them in making system highly available, performant, fault tolerant, stable, instrumentable and maintainable.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field

• 3+ years experience in supporting large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services;

• 3+ experience programming in either of the following: Python, Java

• 3+ years troubleshooting systemic problems in a Linux/Unix environment.

• Strong understanding of operational processes and systems – SLAs, handling tickets, monitoring, automation processes and metrics.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience scripting in modern program languages.

• Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems.

• Excellent communication, organizational and analytical skills.

• Strong degree of empathy for the customer experience.

• Ability to solve problems under pressure, and quickly learn technical concepts with a strong sense of urgency and prioritization.

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