Systems Development Engineer, Managed Operations

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Job Overview

AWS is set to introduce the inaugural European Sovereign Cloud (ESC), marking a significant development in utility computing. As part of the AWS Managed Operations team, you will play a pivotal role in building and leading operations and development teams dedicated to delivering high‑availability AWS services, including EC2, S3, Dynamo, Lambda, and Bedrock, exclusively for EU customers.

Responsibilities

- Oversee the launch of the ESC in 2025, working closely with general AWS teams.
- Influence the evolution of AWS services and technology.
- Collaborate with technology leaders, contributing to day‑to‑day operations.
- Ensure improvements in availability, reliability, latency, performance, and efficiency of the ESC.
- Participate in on‑call rotations to resolve incidents out of hours.

Eligibility Requirements

- Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
- Must be a national of an EU member state and residing in the EU.
- AWS will provide relocation support for successful applicants relocating within the EU.
- Employees will participate in an On‑Call rota.

Basic Qualifications

- National of an EU member state.




- Proven experience in software development or related field with proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, TypeScript, Python, or Ruby.
- Experience in engineering, working with hardware, software, networking, operating systems.
- Solid understanding of Linux and networking, troubleshooting performance, reliability, or availability.
- Experience designing systems for performance, simplicity, scalability, durability, cost, and security.

Preferred Qualifications

- Lead creation, revision, or improvement of standard operational procedures (SOPs).
- Experience with monitoring frameworks such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic.
- Mentor junior engineers and work cross‑organizationally.
- Support services in AWS or other cloud systems.
- Operate 24x7 high‑availability distributed software applications; performance tuning and fleet utilization.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar).

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📌 Systems Development Engineer, Managed Operations - Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Madrid)
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📍 Madrid