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Have you ever wanted to be part of a team who is building industry changing technology? Amazon’s Project Kuiper is long-term initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.
Key job responsibilities
As a Systems Development Engineer working on the Kuiper Ground Infrastructure Operations team:
- Continuously strive for operational excellence by seeking to automate away manual processes
- Ensure that all systems are designed to be robust, scalable, maintainable and adaptable as the service scales and evolves over time
- Build and maintain critical infrastructure, tools and operating procedures to report on the health of Ground Infrastructure.
- Integrate with other existing systems such as trouble ticketing, dashboards, and metrics tools and services
- Measure and improve the performance and availability of the Kuiper Ground Infrastructure
- Provide critical operations support and incident response for the service, while taking part in an on-call rotation
A day in the life
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About the team
Project Kuiper is looking for a System Development Engineer for the Ground Infrastructure Operations team. If you have an understanding of software, systems, networking, and hardware and how they interact, your skills are needed.
As a System Development Engineer, will build tools and processes for monitoring, operating, and scaling Ground Infrastructure to millions of users around the globe. Use and enhance the tools you and the team develop. Using metrics, scalability in design, and continuous improvement, will automate repetitive processes to eliminate outages and enable high availability of the Ground Infrastructure.
Work with business partners, leadership and other engineers, influence and lead the design of systems. We need your ideas and your ability to take initiative, innovate, and produce results as we continuously improve the customer experience.
Day to day work will vary between automation or other scripting work, operational excellence initiatives, design meetings, coordination with engineering teams and external partners such as AWS Frontier, Telco carriers and Teleports, and/or oncall responsibilities.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
London, GBR
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Proficiency with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, or Ruby
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
An effective multi-tasker who navigates a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with grace and efficiency.
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