Infrastructure Support Engineer, IREO

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Are you a passionate problem solver with a talent for unravelling intricate technical challenges? Do you flourish in an environment that demands innovation, resilience, and the ability to build and maintain robust services? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you within the Infrastructure Reliability Engineering Organisation (IREO) team.

You’ll have the privilege of being a valued member of an exceptional team, thriving in a dynamic and enthusiastic environment that combines dedication and enjoyment. A day in the life of a support engineer looks something like this:
• Dive deep to pinpoint the underlying causes of customer-related issues, providing valuable assistance in escalations when necessary.
• Apply Linux expertise to troubleshoot, innovate solutions, and resolve technical issues.
• Efficiently managing ticket queues for both our internal team and partner service teams ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) are met.
• Leading the team to enhance operational efficiency by analysing root causes, trends and developing metrics, procedures, tools and documentation.
• Engaging with internal service teams to contribute to company-wide initiatives, including tasks such as patching, operating system migrations, and code updates.
• Working with various internal software development teams to actively enhance systems and services within the team’s scope.
• Collaborating closely with experienced engineers and actively engaging in knowledge-sharing sessions with the team.
• Allocated personal development time for mastering new programming languages, honing software development skills, and crafting services to enrich your career growth.

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will get hands-on experience with tools and services that exist outside the scope of native AWS products. This presents an exciting opportunity to engage with systems you might not encounter otherwise, allowing you to gain invaluable experience in infrastructure development.

Career Growth
We hire and develop the best and champion the relentless pursuit of self-improvement. We understand the significance of training, and upon joining the team, you will undergo our comprehensive training programme. This programme is designed to provide you with a deeper understanding of the tools we utilise and the service teams we collaborate with.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

About the team
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

About the team
You will need to be a UK national and able to obtain and maintain a UK Government Security Clearance. Further details found here:

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in software development, or experience in technical support
- Experience scripting in modern program languages
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience scripting in modern programming languages

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of web services, distributed systems, and web application development
- Experience troubleshooting & maintaining hardware & software RAID
- Experience with REST web services, XML, JSON