SysDev Engineer, ElastiCache

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Description

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations - from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services

Are you passionate about building a large-scale, distributed, highly available, and reliable in-memory database? We are building in-memory services, powered by open-source databases such as Redis and Memcached, and optimized for sub millisecond latency at scale. Come and join us to define the future of in-memory databases at AWS.

Key job responsibilities

The AWS ElastiCache team in Tel-Aviv is looking for an experienced SysDev Engineer to help us build the future of in-memory databases. The SysDev engineer is in charge of availability, stability and security of ElastiCache production services and their critical infrastructure. You will work closely with a tight, agile team that ships features continuously, and you will be able to see the impact of your work on real customers!

A day in the life

As devOp engineer in our team you will own deployment of new services, setting up new regions and help with any production related task. You will learn about the AWS backend and the technology which runs it.

About The Team

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• Work/Life Balance
  
  

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Basic Qualifications

5+ years overall software development/DevOps/production engineering experience.

• Experience in UNIX/Linux operating system.
• Masterful of at least one scripting language (Python, Ruby, TypeScript, etc.)
• Comfortable working with ambiguous/undefined problems and has ability to think abstractly.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience of architecting and building using AWS technologies to deliver highly available and resilient software systems.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of issues.
• Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work well in a team
• Experience with CI/CD systems