Thursday, September 6, 2012

Job opening - EC2 System Engineer at Amazon (Seattle, WA)

Systems Engineer - Amazon EC2 Operations Engineering

Who we are:

EC2 OpsEng is at the heart of the leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud computing platform. We manage the thundering herd of servers and systems that comprise EC2, using a service-oriented approach to large-scale systems management.

You'll be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing.

Who you are:

You have a passion for massive platforms. You want to know what makes them tick, to take their pulse and measure, and to drive them. You understand operating systems, networking, software and services and speak the language of scripting for systems administration. You have a passion for large scale automation. You live and breathe operational risk management. You understand technical ! debt. You know success is measured by Customers.

You + EC2 OpsEng:

You'll be surrounded by wickedly smart software developers and systems engineers who are passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class software is critical to customer success. You'll become a master at designing and developing services to manage the EC2 platform. You'll be engaged on so many interesting things that you'll think you're at a start-up.

You'll be surrounded by people who are wickedly smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. You'll become a master at EC2 platform diagnosis, response, measurement, and automation. You will design and build the operational scalability that sustains the platform's insane growth. You will measure your success and it will be visible. You'll be so engaged on so many interesting things, you'll think you're at a startup.

  • Expertise administering Linu! x operating systems. You have to be really good at this.
  • Experience scripting and programming for systems administration using one or more of the following: perl, python, ruby, shell
  • Experience with metrics acquisition and analysis, including log processing and regular expressions programming
  • Knowledge of TCP/IP networking fundamentals

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or related technical discipline
  • Experience developing web-based system monitoring and mitigation tool
  • SQL programming experience
  • Excel analytics and presentation experience
  • Network administration experience
  • Start-up experience Experience with systems administration in Xen or another virtualized environment
  • *LI-DL1
** For more information on Amazon Web Services, please visit http://aws.amazon.com **



If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=1579633-2668-9442

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