Cloud Support Associate- DMTSE Devops

Job description

DESCRIPTION

The Pyxis team is looking for a Support Engineer.

The AWS Pyxis team works with and supports the services and tools which support AWS - like CloudFormation, CloudTrail, and AWS-SDK. As a member of this team, you will be exposed to most AWS services and technologies. Our support engineers work in a fast-paced environment with our multi-disciplined service teams to deliver these cutting-edge services to our customers. Pyxis team members own the scaling and management of services across AWS regions supporting the US Government.
AWS is looking for engineers passionate about both development and operations. The candidate should have a strong desire to learn and be curious about Amazon's internal and external services. This is a true DevOps role; you will be both allowed and expected to follow problems all the way to the end and work on implementing real solutions and not just quick fixes. A candidate who wants to go deep and understand how these large systems work will get a chance to excel in this position.

A Pyxis Support Engineer will:
· work with other engineers and service teams to build, manage massively scaled services and diagnose, resolve customer issues
· perform code builds, deployments and read complex service code
· track the health of our services, identify and fix problems on complex systems with massive scale
· refine operational process and procedures
· participate in team planning and lead small projects
· mentor junior team members
· develop simple tools and scripts
· monitor metrics and dashboards to maintain service SLA's

The candidate should have a solid understanding of Linux operating systems, to including at least half of the following:
· Various distros and their corresponding package management tools
· Permissions and permissions management
· Log parsing using grep, awk, sed, cut, tr, etc
· Network tools (ip, ifconfig, netstat, tcpdump, strace, netcat, ping, telnet, etc)
· System Monitoring Tools (top, *stat tools, etc)
· DNS and tools (bind, host, dig, nslookup, etc)

This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Minimum of 1 year experience with administrative access to a computer system.
· Minimum of 1 year basic tools experience in a Unix-like environment
· Minimum of 1 year experience working with a Linux or Unix-like command line.
· Familiar with debugging applications running on Linux and/or Unix servers.
· Minimum of 1 year experience with of one or more programming or scripting languages