DevOps Engineer, Amazon
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate should be detail-oriented, have superior verbal and written communication skills, and possess strong organizational skills with the ability to juggle multiple tasks at once
- They must be able to work independently and maintain professionalism under pressure
- The candidate should be able to identify problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages
- They must have the ability to accurately prioritize projects, make sound judgments, work to improve the customer experience, and get the right things done
- 2+ years of software development, or 2+ years of technical support experience
- Experience scripting in modern programming languages
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
Desirable
- Knowledge of distributed applications/enterprise applications
- Knowledge of UNIX/Linux operating system
- B.S. in Computer Science (or a similar discipline)
- AWS or other cloud infrastructure maintenance experience
- Demonstrates skill and passion for improving availability and resiliency using operational/engineering excellence
- Other desired technical skills include Perl, Ruby, Python
What the job involves
- As a DevOps Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in enhancing the availability, resiliency, and security of our WMS (Warehouse Management Systems)
- You'll collaborate with over 100 core engineering teams across multiple locations, developing automation for recurring manual infrastructure-related tasks, software upgrades, AWS region creation/migration, cutting-edge automation, and infrastructure using Python, Java, and AWS Cloud technologies (including Lambda, Fargate, ECS, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, S3, and EventBridge)
- Responsibilities include troubleshooting, diagnosing, and fixing production software issues; developing monitoring solutions; performing software maintenance and configuration; tracking and resolving technical challenges; and building and developing tools to automate manual business and operational processes
- Your responsibilities will include continuous improvement of the systems and pipelines that power FTR's products and features, as well as building scalable solutions to ensure services and systems meet our high standards for operational excellence
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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