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Amazon.com - System Admin/Engineer - Global Payment Services
Seattle, WA
An immediate need exists for a Systems Administrator/Support
Engineer in the Amazon.com Global Payments Operations team
in Seattle, WA. The GP Operations team is responsible for
24x7 monitoring and outage response of all Amazon.com
Payment systems. Additionally, this team is involved in new
features and Payment Systems projects from inception through
deployment. The successful candidate will have 3-5 years
experience supporting live applications in their production
environment, and will have knowledge/experience in the
physical deployment of network infrastructure components
(routing, switching and firewall)Web and/or payments
applications.
Duties include, but are not limited to:
* Ownership of one or more production applications or
components
* Monitoring of production applications, including creating
and/or implementing automated methods to monitor production
applications
* Collection and presentation of relevant application
performance statistics
* Coordination of installation and setup of servers
* Ensuring efficient use of hardware and scalability of
deployed systems.
* Troubleshooting and resolving problems with production
systems
* Representing GP Operations at meetings with other groups
and partners
* Creating documentation of production systems
Skills Required:
* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent and at least 3-5 years of
experience in a Web and/or payments platform environment.
* Expert knowledge of Linux
* Able to solve complex problems
* Experience installing and managing Web platforms and
applications.
* Expert knowledge of networking, security/firewall, and
unix shell commands.
* Advanced functional scripting knowledge (e.g. Perl,
Python, Shell, etc.)
* Excellent customer service and communication skills
Skills Desired:
* Experience in a 24/7 production environment
* Knowledge of XML, C++, and CGI programming (prior
experience in product development is a huge plus)
* Performance tuning (especially Apache and databases,
Oracle preferred)
* Cisco certification (CCNA or higher)
Unique Requirements:
GP Ops engineers will be part of a 24/7 on-call rotation. As
such, there will be time periods when they will be on call
for all production Payments systems. While on call GP Ops
engineers will need to carry a pager and cell phone with
them so they are easily reachable.
Please email your resume to 022004-resumes amazon.com and include LinuxChix.org in the subject
line.
Amazon.com
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