• 2+ years' work experience in a Technical Support or Technical Customer Service role.
• 2+ Experience with Installation and Troubleshooting Operating System knowledge (Operating System Administration- Linux).
• 2+ Experience in Network fundamentals- Topology, protocols (TCP/IP), and physical networking.
• Able to communicate effectively in English, within technical and business settings

As an Operations Engineer I (OEI) of the AMS team; you will be part of the technical support line. You will receive contacts from corporate clients via email, chats and calls regarding infrastructure related requests such as change requests, monitoring, patch management and security and backup services as well as provide full-lifecycle services to provision, run, and support infrastructure. These requests will be minor-intermediate impact, additional requests of higher level/severity will be elevated to the next level of support. This role also takes part in process improvement projects/initiatives for the business.

Key job responsibilities

• Influence team learning and development by participating in trainings, creating tutorials, how-to videos, and other technical articles for the AWS customer community.
• Work directly with technical teams from AWS enterprise, customers and partners to provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs for their application deployment.
• Collaborate and help build utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and AWS Engineers to operate safely at high speed and wide scale.
• Maintain and drive continuous communication with our customers during critical events.
• Work on critical, highly complex customer requirements that span multiple AWS services, such as troubleshooting, supporting fleets of server instances interacting with multiple services across several AWS regions, build and maintain Cloud Formation templates and scripts and solving challenging operational issues in a complex enterprise environment.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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• Bachelor's Degree in an engineering or IT related discipline.
• Experience with AWS or other Cloud technology
• Other programming languages (Python, Java, C++, C#, Ruby, Bash and Power Shell)
• Experience with virtualization technologies (Hypervisors, VMware, Xen).
• Experience managing full 3-tier architecture (Presentation, Application, and Data tier).