[LA-Jobs] Amazon Web Services - Linux Systems / DevOps Engineers

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A new job has been posted on the Linux Australia website.
http://linux.org.au/amazon-web-services-linux-systems-devops-engineers
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Are you interested in building high-scale databases in the cloud? Do you want  
to revolutionize the way people manage, visualize, query and interact with  
huge amounts of data?

In Database Services, our mission is to provide customers with best in class  
data services in the cloud to store, query and analyze the enormous data sets  
that their businesses generate. We build distributed storage, index and query  
systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage and  
use. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, but still  
at an early stage and working on ambitious new initiatives where an engineer  
at any level can have significant technical and business impact. Our team  
pioneered Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. Each service  
changed the course of database history by bringing new and innovative  
features to our customers.

Systems Engineering comes in a variety of flavors at Amazon. We have  
engineers who are highly skilled in Linux/Unix internals, systems  
performance, networking, and building rock-solid foundational services at  
Amazon Web Services. The majority of our systems engineers write code and  
practice automation. At our scale, we can't afford to do anything less.

Amazon employees are encouraged to own the code they write. There is no  
deploy and forget mentality here. If you wrote it, you run it. If it fails,  
you get paged. Working in this environment makes service availability  
everyone's priority.

Some call it DevOps, Service Reliability Engineering, or Production  
Engineering; at Amazon, we call it Systems Engineering. No matter the title,  
we are out to solve problems before they reach customers and build services  
that can be relied upon by any business, large or small.

On Wednesday, September 16th, our teams will be hiring Systems Engineers for  
our teams in Seattle, WA and Sydney, NSW.

Qualifications
•	3+ years in a development role using object oriented development  
practices
•	Experience building automated scripts using Ruby or Python
•	5+ experience as a Linux/Unix systems administrator
•	Demonstrated systematic troubleshooting methods
•	Advanced knowledge of SQL.
•	Excellent Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
•	Strong drive to learn new technologies, including commercial and  
open-source

Preferred Qualifications
•	Master’s Degree or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience
•	Experience managing and troubleshooting large scale database systems
•	Expert knowledge of one of the following: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2  
or equivalent
•	Advanced knowledge of Databases, their internals and query optimization.
•	Expert knowledge of SQL

Applications and resumes to ljcooper at amazon.com.


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