AWS system Engineer

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS :

- Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or relevant work experience

- Exposure to cloud computing concepts and design considerations

- Advanced knowledge of configuration management systems, such as : Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or related systems

- Experience with performance testing and tuning

- Experience in a 24x7 production environment

- Significant experience of monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar)

- Significant experience of systems automation using BASH, Python, Perl, etc.

- Significant experience of network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, switching, HTTP)

Here's what organizations expect from an AWS engineer :

Bear in mind that not every business or organization might require their AWS engineers to handle all of these tasks and responsibilities.

Expectations can vary depending on the size and nature of the company :

- Be responsible for the planning, implementation, and growth of the AWS cloud infrastructure

- Build, release, and manage the configuration of all production systems

- Manage a continuous integration and deployment methodology for server-based technologies

- Work alongside architecture and engineering teams to design and implement any scalable software services

- Ensure necessary system security by using best in class cloud security solutions

- Stay current with new technology options and vendor products, evaluating which ones would be a good fit for the company

- Implement continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines when necessary

- Recommend process and architecture improvements

- Troubleshoot the system and solve problems across all platform and application domains

- Oversee pre-production acceptance testing to ensure the high quality of a company's services and products

- Become a Certified Expert in AWS, Azure and GCP.