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Sr. Systems Engineer - EC2Networking

Job Ref
246530
Job Type
Permanent
Employer Type
Company
Date Added 13 Jul 2015
Expiry Date 10 Aug 2015
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Employer:
Amazon Development Centre Cape Town

Location:
Western Cape

Salary:
Negotiable

Benefits:


Role details:
Do you want to help shape the future of virtualized networking in theworlds biggest public cloud?

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Networking and Securityteam owns the virtualized networking pipeline that runs right beneath all our customer's instances,adding features like security, billing and monitoring as we touch every single packet on everysingle host across our massive worldwide fleet. We are starting a new team to address customerissues and apply Amazons customer obsession to the cloud.


Amazon is looking for a SeniorSystems Engineer to join the EC2 Networking team. Responsibilities:
Understand how commodityservers, operating systems and networks function, perform and scale.
Possess superbtroubleshooting and problem analysis skills.
Drive technical innovation and efficiency ininfrastructure operations via automation.
Design systems management solutions using automationand self-repair rather than relying on alarming and human intervention.
Create processes thatenhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact.
Dive deep to resolve problemsat their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification andautomation.
Avoid re-inventing the wheel and prefer appropriately simple, repeatable solutionsover more complex and failure prone ones.
Act as a technical point of escalation & mentorfor junior staff.
Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security,operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources.
Develop appropriate metrics todemonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency.

Amazon is an Equal OpportunityEmployer

For more information on Amazon Web Services please visit: http://aws.amazon.com/
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Do you want to help shape the future ofvirtualized networking in the worlds biggest public cloud?

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) Networking and Security team owns the virtualized networking pipeline that runs right beneathall our customer's instances, adding features like security, billing and monitoring as we touchevery single packet on every single host across our massive worldwide fleet. We are starting a newteam to address customer issues and apply Amazons customer obsession to the cloud.


Amazonis looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join the EC2 Networking team. Responsibilities:
Understand how commodity servers, operating systems and networks function, perform and scale.
Possess superb troubleshooting and problem analysis skills.
Drive technical innovation andefficiency in infrastructure operations via automation.
Design systems management solutionsusing automation and self-repair rather than relying on alarming and human intervention.
Createprocesses that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact.
Dive deep toresolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions viasimplification and automation.
Avoid re-inventing the wheel and prefer appropriately simple,repeatable solutions over more complex and failure prone ones.
Act as a technical point ofescalation & mentor for junior staff.
Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation,testing, security, operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources.
Developappropriate metrics to demonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency.

Amazon isan Equal Opportunity Employer

For more information on Amazon Web Services please visit:http://aws.amazon.com/

6+ years relevant work experience and a Bachelors or Equivalentwork experience.
Proficiency deploying and operating Linux or other UNIX variants in adatacenter environment.
Proficiency in TCP/IP networking, architecture and core technologies(DNS, HTTP, Routing, etc.)
Experience with server hardware management across multiplevendors.
Proficiency in automation via shell scripting and Perl programming.
Proficiencywith Standard internet protocols (Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, SSL, DNS, HTTP, etc.)
Experience with security best practices in server configuration, tool development, and accesscontrols.
Previous experience with network automation (e.g. automated provisioning and remoteconfiguration of switches and routers; flow-based analysis and predictive modeling of traffic indynamic routing environments.)
Proficiency coding in a modern programming language, such as C++,Java, C#, Python, Ruby, or Perl
Experience deploying or managing servers in large-scale,geographically diverse environments.
Familiarity with Load Balancers and Firewalls.
Experience mentoring junior engineers.
Experience with capacity planning, utilization review& performance monitoring.
Operational knowledge of common enterprise switching and routingplatforms.


Experience with service-oriented architecture
Experience with theapplication of threat modeling or other risk identification techniques
Detailed knowledge ofsystem security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and thedevelopment of exploits
Scripting skills (e.g., Ruby, Python, PERL, shell scripting)
Excellentwritten and verbal communication skills
Excellent leadership skills and teamworkskills
Results oriented, high energy, self-motivated
Experience managing, monitoring, andupgrading MySQL databases



 
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