AWS Engineer

Company Description

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.  

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.  

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland. 

Job Description

• Design and implement AWS Solutions by utilizing various AWS mainstream services to meet business requirements.
• Focus will additionally target data and analytics specialized solutions and its CI/CD support such as Sagemaker, Redshift, Glue, Athena, Lambda, RDS, Git, Jenkins, and Terraform.
• Develop reusable, efficient, and scalable python modules to automate manual tasks in AWS infrastructure and template data science machine learning operations and models.
• Partner with customers to design and implement serverless applications.
• Using Python boto3 module, automate operational activities to maintain AWS Accounts in secure, cost-efficient manner by automating AWS IAM Keys rotation, notify users of AWS guard duty security findings/vulnerabilities, and cleaning up unused resources.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the root cause of AWS platform incidents.
• Work closely with Syngenta Cloud Architects to implement new launched AWS services.
• Work cross-functionally with various teams within and outside data and analytics organization Telecommuting permitted up to 5 days per week within commutable distance from the Greensboro office.

Qualifications

Master's degree in Information Systems Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field of study and three (3) years of experience in the position offered or three (3) years as an AWS Engineer, Software Developer, or a closely related occupation.

Requires three (3) years of experience with: AWS administration activities; Python; deploying infrastructure into AWS cloud platform; delivering engineering practices and guidance into production environments; writing modular codes; AWS Services including IAM, Lambda, Cloudwatch, EventBridge, CloudTrail, EC2, S3, Sagemaker, Glue, Lambda, IoT, and EKS Systems; CI/CD; collaborative software development including source control and collaborative design and code reviews; and Redshift.

Additional Information

What We Offer:

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs
• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution
• Paid Vacation, 9 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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