Job ID: 2772579 | Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited
Amazon Stores Tier One Support (C-TOS) is the first line of defense for maintaining high availability in the Amazon Retail Website. We make customer impacting events shorter, less frequent, and less severe, by providing large scale event and incident management. The Amazon Retail Website has hundreds of millions of customers globally who can be impacted by these types of incidents; the work we do to mitigate them helps real people at a tremendous scale. Our Support Engineers are front-and-center in driving down event duration by utilizing their operational experience, knowledge of best practices, and effective usage of incident management tools.
We're looking for engineers who have owned or participated in operations and/or incident management for at least one large-scale enterprise. The Amazon Retail Website is complex and constantly changing; it operates across dozens of countries, consists of thousands of cloud-based services, is built and maintained by tens of thousands of engineers, and serves hundreds of millions of customers. When it experiences major issues, part of your job will be to respond to it within minutes and ensure the best course of action is taken. This experience will expose you to all things Amazon.
Our engineers are encouraged to build solutions to problems while sharing the benefit of those solutions with other service teams. This is an excellent opportunity to join one of Amazon's world-class teams of engineers, and work with some of the best and brightest while also developing your skills and career within one of the most dynamic, innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere. In addition to a stimulating and fun working environment, Amazon offers mentoring programs with experienced engineers, regular tech talks with technology Principals, and well-defined career paths for motivated engineers who want to contribute to our culture of operational excellence and customer-focused technical innovation. This position will be part of a globally distributed team of 20+ engineers across Austin, Dublin, and Sydney to allow for 24x7 coverage. Each group will work 10 hour shifts for 4 days a week. If you're looking for a team with great growth potential and an opportunity to make a huge impact, this is the team to join.
Responsibilities:Be a technology evangelist and use your deep knowledge to solve business problemsReduce mean time to resolution for all incident typesDesign and/or build world class listening systemsAdapt and improve operations management systems and processes to accommodate rapid and increasing growthParticipate in Agile sprints to evolve business processes and technologiesCreate and review documentation, design new standard operating proceduresIdentify and troubleshoot recurring platform issues and engage service owners to drive resolutionAutomate tasks through creation and maintenance of scripts and toolsRespond to and complete customer requests within SLA via a trouble ticketing systemTake part in a "follow the sun" rotation split between Seattle, Dublin and Sydney sites, including weekends and holidaysMentor peers in your areas of technical and operational strengthParticipate in the interviewing processBASIC QUALIFICATIONSBachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field.5 years of relevant experience in a large-scale online technical operations environment.Full professional proficiency in speaking and writing English.Experience scripting in at least one interpreted language (e.g. Java, Python) as well as Shell.Experience using Linux and networking fundamentals.Experience driving collaborative projects from conception to delivery.Experience in Agile/Scrum or related collaborative workflow.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSUnderstanding of routing protocols to help facilitate troubleshooting and remediation of networking issues.Effective time management and dealing effectively with customers during problem resolution.Excellent troubleshooting skills and a commitment to document findings.
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