The AWS Launch Wizard team is focused on automating the provisioning of commercial software applications using Amazon Web Services. Our mission is to make AWS is the best place to deploy an enterprise application in the Cloud. Our goal is to make enterprise application provisioning simple, with minimal effort, and without the need to spend weeks learning how to use AWS. We do this through infrastructure as code and configuration scripts that build fully operational commercial applications that can immediately be used in a production environment.

We are seeking an experience systems development engineer who has experience writing automation for infrastructure provisioning and software configuration. As a member of the Launch Wizard team, you will work with exciting technologies to automate provisioning solutions for a diverse set of enterprise customers at the scale of Amazon Web Services. The ideal candidate will bring not only experience but also a passion for solving complex challenges through simplified design and software engineering solutions.

This position includes being a member of the operational team that requires a week of on-call responsibilities once every 6 to 8 weeks. On-call duties include responding to customer issues, reviewing operational metrics, and improving operational excellence. Nobody likes to be paged in the middle of the night, which is why we place a top priority on ensuring issues are solved at the root cause to prevent them from happening again. Adjustments to the on-call schedule are commonly made to account for personal commitments as they arise.

About the team
Utility Computing (UC)
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.

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