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Amazon.com

CompanyAmazon.com
Websiteamazon.com
LocationAmazon.com - Seattle, WA - No · Remote
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TechPythonRubyRails
Parsed locationsAmazon.com - Seattle, WA - No
Posted byarupchak
PostedOct 1, 2010
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Amazon.com - Seattle, WA - No remote Please email me directly at ${hn_username}@gmail.com The Amazon Services team is looking for a great Systems Support Engineer to keep our systems running. You should be comfortable in a Linux environment, be able to automate everything you did yesterday, and willing to troubleshoot and resolve new problems on a daily basis. Come join one of the fastest growing teams within Amazon. Responsibilities: -Maintain stability and performance of our systems via tickets during oncall shifts -Diagnose and troubleshoot new production issues that affect our customers -Create and maintain standard operating procedure documents for new issues identified -Automate operational tasks to assist with our scaling needs Requirements: -Proficiency in a scripting language (Ruby, Perl, Python, Shell) -Familiar with SQL databases -Comfortable navigating a Linux environment -Basic understanding of web application architectures Bonus points: -Written a Rails application -Deep knowledge of Oracle databases -Troubleshooting experience -Ticketing experience