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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Senior Operations Engineer – Visual Search </div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">A9.com is a subsidiary of Amazon</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">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.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">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.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">In this role you will:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Own operational responsibility for high-availability distributed systems deployed across continents, and the systems that generate this data.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Help define and implement processes to improve the operational efficiency for the entire Visual Search organization.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Improve the build and release management for all online services.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Develop tools, scripts and documentation for everyday maintenance tasks.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Assist in the development and maintenance of security best practices.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Own hardware fleet management.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Liaison with other Amazon teams on troubleshooting.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Work with developers on improving operational coding practices and validating of software changes.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Provide on-call support in a shared rotation for production services.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Requirements:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Experience in the development and rollout of technical operations processes.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Experience in managing applications, trouble-shooting failures and recovery.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Experience with process management tools (Remedy, JIRA, etc.) as well as operations policies and practices.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * 5+ years of systems administration experience in a large scale production Linux or other UNIX environment, preferably as a senior member of the team.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * 2+ years of scripting and development skills in bash, Perl, Python, Java, etc.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Working knowledge of Hadoop.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Familiarity with the AWS stack.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Working knowledge and familiarity with high-availability, distributed systems and services in a hosting environment: including hardware, OS, storage, network, and database solutions.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Experience with capacity planning and performance measurement tools and reporting.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">You are going to love this job because you will:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Work alongside top-notch engineers, product managers and business owners in a fast-paced productive environment.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Have a direct impact on the bottom line of one of the best Internet companies on the planet.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Contribute to a strategic Amazon initiative that reaches large audiences.</div>
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