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The Studios Technology Services team supports production personnel (cast and
crew) and Studios business teams (production operations, post production, and
marketing) and our Media Supply Chain. We work in a team environment and
interact with production personnel and studio executives at all levels. Our
Infrastructure Engineering team is looking for Sr Site Reliability Engineers to
build, deploy, operate, and sustain our critical infrastructure and systems. The
team will operationalize the stability and reliability of these systems and
discover innovative ways to scale and operate them reliably as we expand. You
will deploy and monitor the systems and automation to ensure that critical
infrastructure is operating optimally and implement mechanisms to prevent
service impacting incidents. You will utilize trends and metrics to identify
opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks, tools and processes
to continuously improve systems. Site Reliability Engineers focus on automating
infrastructure at scale and using best practice stability and reliability
protocols to ensure reliability and repeatability.
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, be detail driven,
and have excellent problem-solving abilities. You will be comfortable designing,
building, deploying, and operating, as well as resolving critical issues. The
role will be responsible for systems functionality, performance, and optimizing
configurations and the ideal candidate can demonstrate sound knowledge of
scripting concepts and theory. It is important that you can earn trust of your
peers and stakeholders through your body of work and day to day interactions.
This role requires ambition, thinking big, self-motivation, and the ability to
thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and startup-like environment.
A day in the life
* Comfortable designing, developing, deploying, and IaC, Python, and scripts
* Builds solutions for problems of sizable scope and complexity that have been
successfully deployed to customers/users
* Champions Infrastructure as Code (IaC); provides thought leadership;
establishes enterprise-level infrastructure patterns.
* Builds and enhances Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
* Mentors less experienced software engineers. Collaborates with other teams and
engineers to find innovative solutions for moderately complex problems.
* Comfortable designing, building, deploying, and operating cloud systems, as
well as resolving critical issues.
About the team
Our Infrastructure Engineering team builds, deploys, operates, and sustains our
critical applications, infrastructure and systems in the cloud. You will deploy
and monitor the systems, with automation to ensure that critical infrastructure
is operating optimally while implementing mechanisms to prevent service
impacting incidents. You will utilize trends and metrics to identify and
communicate opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks, tools and
processes to continuously improve systems.
Engineers are responsible for developing the tools, platforms, and methodologies
that deliver performant, resilient, and efficient cloud platforms and
architectures. Our engineers touch a wide range of AWS applications and
infrastructure components. Basic Qualifications: - Experience leading the
design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby,
Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- 5+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and
process improvement experience
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes Preferred Qualifications: -
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis
of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely
and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to
standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively
and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional
customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company
policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship
with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties
and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company
policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and
respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and
safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los
Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified
applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our
customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or
adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the
interview or onboarding process, please visit
https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations
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information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please
contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic
markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,100/year in our lowest
geographic market up to $235,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is
based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on
job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation
company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other
forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package,
in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For
more information, please visit
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits
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remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external
career site.