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Amazon Development Centre South Africa is looking for passionate software developers to join us and help to solve a challenging set of problems in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) space.
This vacancy is for the EC2 Placement team which is responsible for optimally placing instances on the EC2 launch-path. This problem-space is particularly interesting, as it requires us to build systems which solve multi-axis optimization problems in computationally efficient and safe ways. Given EC2's scale, there are wide-ranging and sizeable up-sides our service enhancements.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.
Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry experience in a software development environment, including internships
• Experience in any of Java, Scala, Ruby, Perl, C/C++ or C#
• Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative applications
• Strong customer focus
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with Linux and networking development
• Knowledge of system performance methodologies along with hands on empirical monitoring
• Strong desire to build, a sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Excellent written communication and verbal agility
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment

Company - Amazon Dev Centre South Africa
Job ID: A758993

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We are seeking Support Engineers with a specialty in database technologies.
Basic Qualifications

• Strong Linux system administrator skills
• Strong skills in one or more of following:
• MS-SQL
• MySQL
• Oracle
• Db performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Experienced setting up monitoring / alarming for production DB environments
• Some experience with NoSQL technologies like DynamoDB , Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra or Riak
• ETL experience in managing data workflow jobs
• Experienced with Linux system monitoring and analysis
• Good understanding of distributed computing environments
• Technology-related Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Customer service experience / strong customer focus
• Strong multi-tasking skill
• Strong analysis and troubleshooting skills and experience
• Self-starter who is excited about learning new technology

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Some experience with query analyzers and query tuning / slow query optimization etc.
• Networking (DNS, TCP/IP)
• Exposure to Virtualization (VMware, Xen, Hypervisor)
• Prior working experience with AWS - any or all of EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, Dynamo DB, EMR
• Exposure to security concepts / best practices
• Expertise with IPsec, VPN, Load Balancing, Iperf, MTR, Routing Protocols, SSH, Network
• Monitoring / Troubleshooting tools
• Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications

‘’Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity and Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.’’
Company - Amazon Dev Centre South Africa
Job ID: A771744

• Some experience with query analyzers and query tuning / slow query optimization etc.
• Networking (DNS, TCP/IP)
• Exposure to Virtualization (VMware, Xen, Hypervisor)
• Prior working experience with AWS - any or all of EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, Dynamo DB, EMR
• Exposure to security concepts / best practices
• Expertise with IPsec, VPN, Load Balancing, Iperf, MTR, Routing Protocols, SSH, Network
• Monitoring / Troubleshooting tools
• Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications

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DESCRIPTION

We are seeking talented engineers, well versed in DevOps technologies, automation, continuous integration and configuration management, who are not constrained by how “things are usually done”.
On a typical day, Cloud Support Engineers might deep dive to root cause a customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way or a deployment failing, consult with the top engineers at Amazon, or discuss creative new approaches to automate operational issues.
You'll be part of a world-class team, in a dynamic environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and support systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. You'll become skilled at cloud platform diagnosis, response, measurement, and automation. You will measure your success and it will be visible.
If this interests you, we’d like to talk.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience in a relevant technical position
• Demonstrated proficiency in DevOps, Configuration Management and Continuous Integration technologies (Chef, Puppet, Docker, Jenkins etc.)
• Some programming / scripting experience (Bash, PowerShell, Java, Perl, Ruby, Python)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong customer focus
• Strong multi-tasking skills
• Ability to work a staggered week, either Sun-Thu or Tue-Sat (no on-call)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

These qualifications are optional, but please highlight them on your resume if you have them:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science / Engineering or a related field
• Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity and Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

Company - Amazon Dev Centre South Africa

Job ID: A770160