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<div>Full time Position at A9.com in Palo Alto, CA</div>
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<div>Please respond to chrisvan@a9.com</div>
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<div>A9 is a subsidiary of Amazon.</div>
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Does the challenge of building and running large-scale distributed imaging server infrastructure excite you? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, developing high-quality, scalable solutions and deploying them globally? Join the
Visual Search team at A9.com (a subsidiary of Amazon.com) and help us build our technical operations from ground up. </p>
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Our solutions match millions of images - whether on the Amazon website, or the Amazon Wish List, or on our flagship "Flow" application (available for iPhone and Android) using our cutting edge patented technologies. All in a few milliseconds, at Amazon scale.
Every day, we run an infrastructure that combines various platforms and technologies at scale, and delivers revenue to Amazon. With our systems and services growing rapidly, we are looking for the best and brightest talent to solve complex scaling challenges
using cutting edge technologies in heavily automated environments. </p>
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<strong style="font-weight: 700;">In this role you will:</strong></p>
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Own operational responsibility for high-availability distributed systems deployed across continents, and the systems that generate this data.</p>
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Help define and implement processes to improve the operational efficiency for the entire Visual Search organization.</p>
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Improve the build and release management for all online services.</p>
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Develop tools, scripts and documentation for everyday maintenance tasks.</p>
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Assist in the development and maintenance of security best practices.</p>
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Own hardware fleet management.</p>
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Liaison with other Amazon teams on troubleshooting.</p>
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Work with developers on improving operational coding practices and validating of software changes.</p>
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Provide on-call support in a shared rotation for production services.</p>
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<strong style="font-weight: 700;">Requirements:</strong></p>
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Experience in the development and rollout of technical operations processes.</p>
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Experience in managing applications, trouble-shooting failures and recovery. </p>
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Experience with process management tools (Remedy, JIRA, etc.) as well as operations policies and practices.</p>
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5+ years of systems administration experience in a large scale production Linux or other UNIX environment, preferably as a senior member of the team.</p>
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2+ years of scripting and development skills in bash, Perl, Python, Java, etc.</p>
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Working knowledge of Hadoop.</p>
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Familiarity with the AWS stack.</p>
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Working knowledge and familiarity with high-availability, distributed systems and services in a hosting environment: including hardware, OS, storage, network, and database solutions.</p>
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Experience with capacity planning and performance measurement tools and reporting.</p>
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.</p>
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<strong style="font-weight: 700;">You are going to love this job because you will:</strong></p>
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Work alongside top-notch engineers, product managers and business owners in a fast-paced productive environment.</p>
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Have a direct impact on the bottom line of one of the best Internet companies on the planet.</p>
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Contribute to a strategic Amazon initiative that reaches large audiences.</p>
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