Service Engineering Consultant

Do you enjoy building large software systems while staying tightly engaged with the customers that are delighted by them?

Do you like helping people understand the right way to secure a cloud infrastructure?

Do you think that it is finally time to start showing people that right way to be secure versus just telling them?

The AWS Professional Services Security and Infrastructure (S&I) team works with our largest enterprise customers to help them operationalize the shared responsibility model as they migrate to the cloud.

Our S&I Automation and Customer Experience Team is looking for automation-obsessed software engineering consultants to join us and help us continue to raise the security bar for our internal and external customers.

We develop services and tooling to accelerate our customers journey while minimizing their operational risk by pursuing an unwaveringly high operational excellence bar.

Those services come in a variety of forms, from large services, to scripts, to even games The ideal candidate loves to learn and invent and likes customer interaction.

As members of AWS Professional Services, we are not stewards of a single AWS service, but of the entire AWS platform and keeping up to date with the ever-widening stream of AWS platform improvements and new products.

You don’t need to be a “security person” if you’re willing to learn; but our domain is customers and their security, in any and all forms.

The candidate should come prepared with a basic understanding of software design and implementation experience, strong knowledge of web protocols, and a knowledge of Linux/Unix tools and architecture, preferably in Java, Python, Ruby and/or Node.

Experience with web-based applications and/or web services-based applications, especially at massive scale and in a DevOps environment, are very applicable and helpful.

Responsibilities: Learn and implement best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, monitoring and operations Build flexible systems choosing simple, straightforward solutions over more complex ones Engage directly with customers as advocates and owners of our services and helping improve them to drive cloud adoption.

Contribute to our service roadmap by implementing backlog and suggesting improvements.

Possess self-drive to keep moving things forward even in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge (avoid “analysis paralysis”) Encourage and support knowledge-sharing within team and external groups Communicate clearly both verbally and in writing, within team and external groups Actively participate in hiring and mentoring the very best Basic Qualifications 10 years experience in developing secure customer facing web and/or mobile applications Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Information Security or equivalent experience required.

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