Job opening - Sr. Systems Engineer at Amazon (Seattle, WA)

The Website Platform team hosts highly available, scalable, fast, and efficient websites for multiple tenants, including Amazon's own retail sites. To help drive operational costs to the floor, we are actively recruiting qualified Systems Engineers to operate our existing fleets, analyze and tune hardware/software configurations, automate existing manual processes, and identify improvements to our existing tools. This exciting and high impact role will involve working with a wide range of other technical and business groups within Amazon.

• 5+ years experience with performance analysis, systems software, and systems architecture.
• Ability to operate in high pressure environment and successfully handle multiple priorities.
• In depth knowledge & experience of Load Balancer technologies, Linux and Apache.
• Excellent communication, prioritization and analytical skills.
• Excellent knowledge of server hardware and software troubleshooting.
Knowledge of system performance methodologies along with hands on empirical monitoring.
• Experience deploying or managing large scale distributed Linux environments.
• Proficiency in scripting/programming with Perl (essential) and C, C++, Java, CGI
• Internet and operating system security fundamentals.
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking, architecture and core technologies (DNS, LDAP, NFS, FTP, etc.)
• Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Candidates must have strong computer science credentials and should be passionate about Internet technology.

• 10+ years experience with performance analysis, systems software, and systems architecture.
• Ability to operate in high pressure environment and successfully handle multiple priorities.
• In depth knowledge & experience of Linux and Apache.
• Excellent communication, prioritization and analytical skills.
• Excellent! knowledge of server hardware and software troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of system performance methodologies along with hands on empirical monitoring.
• Experience deploying or managing large scale distributed Linux environments.
• Proficiency in scripting/programming with Perl (essential) and C, C++, Java, CGI
• Internet and operating system security fundamentals.
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking, architecture and core technologies (DNS, LDAP, NFS, FTP, etc.)
• Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.

If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=1487296-2668-7142

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