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System Engineers
Amazon Development Centre South Africa is looking for passionate, experienced systems
engineers to join us and help to solve a challenging set of problems in space packed full of
opportunities. Amazon Web Services
provides Amazon's developer customers with access
to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform,
which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. The Cape Town based
Development Center plays a key role in building the
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
is the web service that is pioneering cloud computing by
providing resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It gives any developer complete control of
their computing resources and lets them run on Amazon's proven computing environment. We
are continuing to build the team in order to expand on our feature set and manage our rapidly
increasing scale.
The ideal candidate will be clearly passionate about the large opportunity that Amazon EC2
presents and about web services in general. Do you have an good working knowledge of
networking, advanced troubleshooting, performance analysis, and OS
architecture? Are you driven to solve problems through automation? Are you excited by
challenges ranging from sub-millisecond latency problems all the way up to managing millions of
machines, or sifting through billion row databases looking for patterns?
If you said yes to any or all of these questions we want to talk to you.
Successful candidates must:
- Have 5+ years experience managing systems in a Linux-based networked environment.
- Be able to operate in high pressure environment and successfully handle multiple
priorities.
- Have good knowledge of the Linux stack with experience managing it in a work context
- Excellent communication, prioritization and analytical skills.
- Solid 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.
- Be proficient with one of perl, ruby, python, shell scripting
- Understand Internet and operating system security fundamentals.
- Understand TCP/IP networking, architecture and core technologies (DNS, LDAP, NFS,
FTP, etc.)
- Possess a strong desire to build, and a sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
Amazon.com offers a demanding,
exciting and rewarding experience, with opportunities to work
with the world's best computer scientists on some of the most interesting problems.
 click here to apply
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