Job Opportunities at Amazon

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Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television?

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today, and we’re just getting started changing the way millions of people around the world enjoy content. Now available in more than 240 countries and territories, Prime Video offers customers the broadest selection of any on-demand video service, including our critically-acclaimed Amazon Original Series and Movies such as Coming 2 America, Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty, The Boys, Wheel of Time, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Underground Railroad, and Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse and Jack Ryan; hit Local Originals from around the world including Made in Heaven, Mirzapur and The Family Man from India; The Grand Tour from the UK; and LOL: Last One Laughing (now available in Italy, India, France, Germany, Mexico, and more); plus exclusives and live sports.

Amazon Studios is the movies and television development and production arm of Amazon. It is our role to produce original content and license studio programs worldwide in exclusive service of Amazon’s Prime Video customers. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help take us to new heights.

We are currently seeking a Scripted & Movies Development Executive to work with our South Africa Originals development team, based in Cape Town. You will have experience in scripted series and/or feature film development, with the ability to identify material and talent. You will be able to give creative guidance and feedback to top level writers on outlines, scripts and creative pitch documents. Using your knowledge of top tier film and premium television and film talent, you will build on your previous industry relationships and develop new ones. You will be joining a self-motivated, passionate and collaborative team environment.

Key job responsibilities

Support The Development Of South Africa Local Television Series And Source Creative Materials Based On Amazon Studios Local Originals Content Goals By

• Identifying potential new creative talent.
• Reviewing scripts, treatments and pitches to shortlist for senior leadership approval.
• Working with writers to develop stories and scripts, and providing local creative insights in relation to would likely appeal to South African viewers.
• Conducting research as maintaining databases of market information and industry trends.
• Assisting with oversight of all creative aspects of series development, production and post-production;
• Communicating effectively with leadership and other stakeholders of the Amazon Originals team including but not limited to: marketing, business affairs, legal, PR, creative, production, and post-production teams; and
• Overseeing series in pre, production and post with oversight from Head of Scripted and Movies.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience.
• Multiple years of successful series development experience.
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work under strict time constraints and meet deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to work in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
• Experience managing large-scale creative projects, Film or TV.
• Extensive knowledge of South African entertainment industry trends and players.
• Broad network of South African writers, producers and artists.
• Excellent story skills.

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• Join our team of innovative software developers dedicated to evolving our deployment tools and services enabling us to manage software deployments on behalf of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service teams.
• You will contribute to building the next generation deployment orchestration and management infrastructure platform to enhance the speed and safety of continuous deployments in an environment which is expanding at a rapid pace.
• You will program in various languages that primarily include Java, Kotlin, GoLang, Ruby, as well as a variety of internal Amazon tools.
• As an experienced engineer in the team, you will be a technology leader responsible for mentoring engineers in the team, guiding our service's technology strategy, designing and developing high quality software designs and implementing solutions autonomously to address the ambiguous challenges we encounter. We use an agile approach to deliver value to our customers.

Mentoring & Career Growth

• Your career growth is a priority for us. Our team is welcoming and supportive towards new team members through mentoring and coaching.
• You will have access to extensive training material that covers all dimensions of the AWS tools and will be presented with opportunities to leverage and contribute to internal communities, demos and knowledge sharing session to assist you in reaching your career goals.
• As an Amazonian, you will learn from and collaborate with talented colleagues across the globe. With each task or project assigned, we create opportunities for team members to develop into better-rounded engineers and enable you to take on more complex tasks in the future. Engineers in our team show a strong sense of ownership, they are customer centric and proud of the service they deliver.

Work/Life Harmony

• Most of our team is based in Cape Town. Under normal circumstances, we mostly work from the office, but you will have the flexibility to manage your own time. Occasionally we work with our colleagues across the world meaning we accommodate different timezones. This position involves on-call responsibilities. We continuously prioritise efforts to automate ourselves out of operational responsibilities to ensure the impact is minimal.
• We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, curious engineer to join us on our journey of fast and safe deployments. Our team has the potential to multiply the value we offer to our customers, but we need you.
• If this sounds like the opportunity for you, come build with us!

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience
• 5+ years of industry experience in a software development environment
• Sound grasp of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Java, C#, Python, Javascript, Scala, Kotlin, C++, GoLang

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to deliver quality, innovative solutions
• Analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities.
• Effective written and verbal communication
• Working knowledge of AWS products and technologies
• Working knowledge of relational and non-relational databases

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As an Amazonian you will learn from and collaborate with talented colleagues across the globe. With each task or project assigned, we create opportunities for team members to develop into better-rounded engineers and enable you to take on more complex tasks in the future. Engineers in our team show a strong sense of ownership, they are customer centric and proud of the service they deliver.

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, come build with us!

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience
• 3+ years of industry experience in a software development environment
• Sound grasp of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Java, C#, Python, Javascript, Scala, Kotlin, C++, GoLang

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to deliver quality, innovative solutions
• Analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities.
• Effective written and verbal communication
• Working knowledge of AWS products and technologies
• Working knowledge of relational and non-relational databases

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Embrace the challenge and accelerate your growth with Amazon’s International Public Policy and Government Affairs Team. The Head of Public Policy for South Africa will join a growing and dynamic team that works across Europe, Middle East, Africa, India and Asia-Pacific, in support of Amazon’s global consumer and digital businesses. Like our business interests, our policy issues are broad, forward-thinking, and driven by what is best for our customers. The International Public Policy team works with a wide range of national, local, and supranational policymakers, industry organizations, and non-governmental organizations across numerous policy issues spanning the consumer and commercial environment.

As the Head of Public Policy for South Africa you will lead our work with policymakers and non-governmental groups in support of our consumer-centric business model within South Africa. You will have an astute understanding of the public policy and regulatory environment as well as the key stakeholders within it. You will coordinate across Amazon’s business, locally and globally, to develop and implement positioning and engagement strategies. You will also provide support to Amazon businesses in West Africa, on an as-needed basis.

You will lead external advocacy efforts, outreach programs, partnerships, and initiatives in support of these business objectives. You will coordinate Amazon’s engagement with relevant industry associations and wider coalitions, and manage consultancy support. You will be able to manage and drive complex projects, and provide clear and confident guidance, including in situations of high ambiguity. You will be a confident leader, but are also able to operate respectfully and collaboratively within wider regional and international structures.

The position is based in Johannesburg or Cape Town.

Basic Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant public policy and advocacy experience, e.g. within corporate public policy and government relations, in public administration, trade associations or non-governmental organizations.
• A keen working understanding of policy-making processes and government relations in South Africa.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience of public policy leadership in consumer-facing, technology or retail companies.
• Experience working at high level and collaboratively in a highly-matrixed environment, alongside teams including Legal, PR, and business teams.
• Knowledge of policy-making processes and government relations in West Africa.
• Project management experience.
• Public speaking experience.
• International experience.
• A track record of highest integrity and public policy success.
• Ability to concurrently address numerous and wide-ranging issues, and deal effectively with a broad range of public policy matters.
• Is a self-starter who can take general direction and produce specific results.
• Ability to identify and understand key technical aspects pertaining to corporate operations in legislative and regulatory proposals, understand business implications, and synthesize policy documents for internal and external customers.
• Ability to think critically, process data from multiple sources, forecast potential scenarios, prioritize based on probability and desired outcome, and recommend a best course of action.
• Ability to influence, negotiate with, and persuade others; be flexible and demonstrate strong judgment/decision-making skills, and political acumen. Ability to intelligently build a course of action, analyze trade-offs, and make recommendations even in ambiguous situations.
• Advance degree in a relevant subject.

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Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today, and we’re just getting started changing the way millions of people around the world enjoy content. Now available in more than 240 countries and territories, Prime Video offers customers the broadest selection of any on-demand video service, including our critically-acclaimed Amazon Originals Series such as the multi-award-winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, El Presidente, Modern Love, Jack Ryan, LOL: Last One Laughing and The Grand Tour. The Worldwide Production & Operations team covers physical production, post production, and localization of series and movies globally.

Amazon Studios is looking for a Senior Post Production Executive to support unscripted series produced in South Africa from our Cape Town office. This includes maintaining schedules, following up on outstanding deliverables, and organizing assets for delivery to Prime Video. The role will coordinate with third-party vendors on work related to the editing and versioning of assets, ensuring the highest quality standards, tracking expenditures for all production department related work orders, and distributing assets for Public Relations, Marketing, and International Localization needs. This role will work directly with our Content Licensing and Development teams in The United Kingdom, Los Angeles and Cape Town and will be the main point of contact in Cape Town for the Operations teams in Los Angeles and Seattle. This role will also be responsible for evaluating new post-related products and providing thoughtful advice on potential risks and issues in a wide range of asset management areas, including potential vendors, archival solutions, and new technologies.

Key job responsibilities

• Oversee on-time delivery and on-budget execution for all series projects in development, production, and post production for unscripted content
• Oversee and approve post-production budgets, bids, and schedules
• Make recommendations and vet series staff and vendors
• Vet bids for post production services
• Liaise with Unscripted Post Production teams in Los Angeles, Latin America and Europe
• Coordinate with production and development departments to assess scope and challenges of projects
• Collaborate closely with internal Localization, Mastering, and Technology teams in preparing scripted series global release
• Engage with Marketing, Public Relations, and Prime Video team members to deliver assets
• Evaluate technical workflows
• Travel as required in support of show planning and execution

Basic Qualifications

• Extensive experience as Post Producer/Post Executive or the equivalent
• Multiple years experience in budgeting, scheduling and technical workflows
• Experience managing relationships with sound, editorial and finishing post facilities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in various television and film post production environments
• Experience with scheduling post vendors and creating delivery schedules from the beginning to end of production cycles
• Experience with delivery of assets to studios
• Experience with variety of digital media workflows
• Knowledge of wide array of media asset types
• Experience with international subtitling and dubbing workflows
• Ability to work independently while being able to contribute successfully to cross-functional teams
• Organized and with great attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple projects at once, follow through, and meet deadlines

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Amazon is now offering flexibility to choose among 3 different working models, in-office, hybrid, and virtual.

• In Office: Employees will be office based for the majority of their time. Employees on an in-office work pattern will be assigned a desk in an Amazon building. Employees will be required to reside within a commutable distance of the office they are assigned to (Cape Town/Johannesburg).
• Hybrid: Employees will be required to reside within a commutable distance of the office they are assigned to (Cape Town/Johannesburg), but have the flexibility to regularly work from home as well as from the office. Employees on a Hybrid work pattern will be expected to attend at their assigned office a minimum of one day per week. These employees will follow agile seating when in office.
• Virtual Workers: Employees must be based in South Africa, and are not generally required to attend an office facility. If needed, all WFH employees can attend an office for critical trainings, meetings and team-building events. These employees will follow agile seating when in office.

About Us

Amazon Web Services is the market leader and technology forerunner in the Cloud business. As a member of the AWS Support team you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology, assisting a global list of companies and developers that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications. As a Cloud Support Engineer, you will act as the ‘Cloud Ambassador’ across all the cloud products, arming our customers with required tools & tactics to get the most out of their Product and Support investment.

Would you like to use the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have an interest in helping customers understand application architectures and integration approaches? Are you familiar with best practices for applications, servers and networks? Do you want to be part of a customer facing technology team helping to ensure the success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading technology organization?

If you fit the description, you might be the person we are looking for! We are a group of smart people, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM A LIFE AT AWS?

Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:

• Learn and use groundbreaking technologies.
• Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs.
• Interact with leading engineers around the world.
• Partner with Amazon Web Services teams to help reproduce and resolve customer issues.
• Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal AWS teams on how to improve our services.
• Drive customer communication during critical events.
• Drive projects that improve support-related processes and our customers’ technical support experience.
• Write tutorials, how-to videos, and other technical articles for the developer community.
• Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services.

WHY AWS SUPPORT?

• First and foremost this is a customer support role – in The Cloud.
• On a typical day, a Support Engineer will be primarily responsible for solving customer’s cases through a variety of customer contact channels which include telephone, email, and web/live chat. You will apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide tailored solutions for our customers and drive customer interactions by thoughtfully working with customers to dive deep into the root cause of an issue.
• Apart from working on a broad spectrum of technical issues, an AWS Support Engineer may also coach/mentor new hires, develop & present training, partner with development teams on complex issues or contact deflection initiatives, participate in new hiring, write tools/script to help the team, or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives.
• Career development: We promote advancement opportunities across the organization to help you meet your career goals.
• Training: We have training programs to help you develop the skills required to be successful in your role.

We hire smart people who are keen to build a career with AWS, so we are more interested in the areas that you do know instead of those you haven’t been exposed to yet.

• Support engineers interested in travel have presented training or participated in focused summits across our sites or at specific AWS events.
• As we operate on a follow-the-sun model, with Premium Support sites located globally, there is no after hours on-call or mandated overtime in this role.
• Meet Allan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHJVvrHo8E0

The Cloud Support Security Engineer role supports our services that have a focus on enabling security specialists using AWS Services including Identity Access Management (IAM), GuardDuty, Shield, Key Management Service (KMS), CloudTrail, CloudHSM, Inspector etc. Within AWS, security is job zero, and we believe that solid security practices are the foundation for using the Cloud. We are looking for candidates who are passionate about working with products targeted for security professionals.

• Virtual employees are required to have a minimum available bandwidth of 20MB Upload/20 MB Download

Basic Qualifications

• 2 to 4 years of relevant experience
• Experience working with Hardware Security Models.
• Identity and Access concepts and technologies to secure production and corporate access, such as: SSO, SAML
• Federated Identity, RBAC, authentication & authorization solution, etc.
• Understanding of secure-cloud configuration, (CloudTrail, AWS Config, etc), cloud-security technologies (VPC, Security Groups, etc.) and cloud-permission systems (IAM).
• Configuration management (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Experience with broad array of security technologies, such as NGFW, WAF, SIEM, endpoint security and more.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science / Engineering or a related field OR equivalent work experience in a technical position

Preferred Qualifications

• One or more security-related certifications, such as CISSP, CEH, CISA, CISM, SECURITY+, OSCP, etc.

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This role is a unique opportunity to work in some of the most cutting edge data centers in the world. Amazon data centers are large-scale high-density centers where you will be working on changing the face of Cloud technology in the region.

A Data Center Technician will work as part of the Operations team whose primary responsibility is the maintenance and upkeep of the data center infrastructure. The candidate may be the primary point of contact for both internal customers (for example: Network Engineers, Systems Engineers, Software Developers, Database Engineers, Technical Operations) and external customers (Hardware Vendors, Contractors, Service Providers among others). The position is full time and has an on-call (standby) component every 5-6 weeks, operating on a 24*7 rotation. The ideal candidate is someone with hands-on hardware experience.

Responsibilities

• Work and meet SLA’s against assigned trouble tickets via a directed workflow
• First line touch point for hardware troubleshooting and technical issues
• Perform regular server hardware repairs (drives, motherboards etc.)
• Carry out routine network, server hardware and OS related repairs
• Work with cross-functional teams on a regular basis to complete routine work
• Engage with Smart Hands in EU Regional POPs
• Adhere to security and safety best practices in the data center
• Participate in Data Center power & cooling events
• Participate in team meetings for metric analysis and daily/weekly goals achievement
• Identify and help create documentation for use globally
• Identify and help create process improvements relevant to the data center environment
• Perform server upgrades, rebuilds, scheduled works as required
• Interact with third party vendors & contractors
• Contribute to the development of other team members

Key job responsibilities

AWS Data center technicians maintain data servers and network equipment. Duties include maintaining an optimally controlled environment for servers, and conduct break fixes on network and server devices.

A day in the life

AWS Data center technicians always put their customers first and ensure that capacity is available as and when required.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical experience
• Intermediate knowledge of computer hardware systems
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to work independently and well with others in a team environment, displaying excellent time management skills
• Ability to take direction from both a directed work system and/or a team lead
• Able to lift/move up to 20kg equipment on a daily basis

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic to intermediate knowledge of Linux is an advantage
• Basic to intermediate knowledge of networking is an advantage
• Experience with one of the following connection protocols/technologies: SSH, TELNET, IPMI, LILO

NQF level 4 or 5 (preferably NQF 6 or 7)

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of Linux is an advantage.
• Basic knowledge of networking is an advantage.
• Experience with one of the following connection protocols/technologies: SSH, TELNET, IPMI, LILO
• NQF level 6

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Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so that you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work. We engage with colleagues all over the world, meaning we accommodate different time zones. We rotate our on-call responsibilities within our development teams, which means that you would need to be contactable outside of work hours every 4-6 weeks.

Key job responsibilities

• Produce clean, efficient code
• Fixing and improving existing software
• Work with developers to design algorithms
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Recommend and execute improvements
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting

About The Team

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience
• 5+ years of industry experience in a software development environment
• Good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Java, Python, Javascript,
• Nice to have - working knowledge of Typescipt, NodeJS

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to learn new languages and technologies
• Excellent communication skills
• Resourcefulness and troubleshooting aptitude
• Attention to detail
• Persistence when solving a problem
• Ability to work independently and multi-task effectively

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At AWS, customer obsession is in our DNA. In this role you will be surrounded by people that are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and who believe world class support services are critical to customer success. You will have direct influence on how thousands of people around the world leverage tools, interact with customers, and engage with other internal engineering teams to ensure we’re able to help customers while maintaining the highest bar for security possible.

As a Senior Manager, TPM Tooling You Will

• Manage a team that drives tooling programs, and standardizes and mechanizes efforts to continuously raise the operational efficiency, customer experience and security bar.
• Work with AWS teams to convey cloud computing and tooling delivery best practices.
• Work with AWS teams to define the internal tooling strategy for the business.
• Ensure transparency and decision making across AWS leadership by providing communication and clear status of the projects your team owns.
• Work across teams to ensure we continue to merge internal support capabilities with best-in-class security as new services and features are launched.
• Bring your expertise, problem solving skills, and creativity to add value and diversity of thought to our team.

AWS Support values diversity of thought and wants to grow by hiring people with a wide range of backgrounds, cultures, and experiences that allow us to continue innovating for complex problems. If you are interested in shaping the future of Amazon AWS Support organization, apply to learn more about this exciting opportunity.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field. In lieu of degree, additional years of hands-on experience may be substituted.
• 7+ years of program or project management, including indirect influencing of technical teams and stakeholders, in a global, matrix organization.
• 5+ years of management experience.
• 5+ or more years of experience in an engineering or software development role.
• 5+ or more years of cloud computing experience
• Strong demonstrated knowledge across a broadspectrum of technologies, tools, and architecture

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science or related technical field
• Cloud certifications
• Experience working with technology and leadership to articulate organization strategies and plans.
• Proven ability to influence others without having positional authority
• Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services