Operations Engineer, AWS Managed Services

- 2+ years of technical support, or 3+ years of customer service experience
- Experience in System Administration and troubleshooting with Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat) and/or Microsoft Windows Server and associated technologies (Active Directory)
- Experience working with networking fundamentals or Internet protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, SSL, DNS, HTTP/S, or equivalent
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related fields
- 1+ years of professional work experience, or experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
- Experience working with customers who are deploying cloud solutions
- Experience with automation and any version control tools, or experience deploying, managing, and optimizing Microsoft Windows Server and experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience scripting with Python, Perl, Bash or PowerShell
- Experience with programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java or equivalent
- Experience in systems administration (Linux or Windows)
- Experience with virtualization (Hypervisors, VMware, Xen), or experience in software development and experience in managing and troublshooting network
- Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications, or experience in managing and troublshooting network and experience in networking administration and troubleshooting

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USA, WA, Seattle - 80,200.00 - 138,200.00 USD annually
As a member of the AWS Support team you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology assisting a global list of enterprise companies that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications. Amazon has built a reputation for excellence with recent examples of being named #1 in customer service, #1 most trusted, and #2 most innovative. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is carrying on that tradition while leading the world in Cloud technologies. In this role you will be surrounded by people who are passionate about cloud computing and believe that world class support is critical to customer success. Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job.

This role requires somebody that is passionate about solving customers’ problems and a technically strong operations engineer who can lead and guide a team in tackling the hardest technical challenges. This role requires someone who excels at working in an agile environment and collaborating with some of the smartest people in the industry. The successful candidate will get excited about owning critical infrastructure services that serve global customers every second of the day!

Ideal candidate will have experience as a Systems Administrator working with Linux, Unix or Windows

Key job responsibilities
* Troubleshoot and solve challenging operational issues in a complex enterprise environment.
* Supporting fleets of server instances interacting with multiple services across several AWS regions.
* Work directly with technical teams from AWS enterprise, customers and partners to provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs for their application deployment.
* Build and maintain CloudFormation templates and scripts to automate and deploy AWS resources and configuration changes.
* Collaborate and help build utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and AWS Engineers to operate safely at high speed and wide scale.
* Leverage experiences to provide the voice of the customer to internal AWS teams.
* Drive customer communication during critical events.
* Create tutorials, how-to videos, and other technical articles for the AWS customer community.
* Work on critical, highly complex customer incidents that span multiple AWS services.