Dev Ops Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Are you a DevOps Engineer with a passion for building the infrastructure of one of the world's greatest web services? Is “invent and simplify” a part of your nature? Are you excited about coding and delivering automated solutions? Do you enjoy diving deep to understand how something works and then think of ways to improve it? Do you obsess about delivering a stellar customer experience?

Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com serving more than 4M unique visitors per month and building the next generation of marketing analytics services. Our mission is to be most invaluable and trusted source of ground-breaking insights into digital behavior that customers use to win their audience and accelerate growth. For more information, visit www.alexa.com.

We are looking for a self-starter with a DevOps mindset to help us get there. Working in a small team at Alexa, you will have the opportunity to dive deep on AWS, learn a breadth of technologies and contribute significantly to our business by bringing new ideas to the team. The right candidate can assimilate into a strong technical team in a role that will reward them with increasing degrees of ownership, autonomy and compensation (signing bonus + Amazon.com stock grants).

Core responsibilities:
Design and develop mission-critical operations services, including change control, orchestration, load balancing, infrastructure provisioning, and monitoring.
· Design and develop mission-critical operations services, including change control, orchestration, load balancing, infrastructure provisioning, and monitoring.
· Ensure those systems are scalable, responsive, and reliable
· Create tools and workflows to support software engineers.
· Own and implement cross functional projects.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
· 3+ years of experience in Unix systems administration or systems management in a production architecture for a highly-trafficked web site
· Strong coding and development skills in at least one of the following: Python, Node.js, Java
· Solid understanding of networking and security best practice
· Ability to learn technical concepts quickly with a strong sense of urgency
· Proven troubleshooting experience, and a talent for solving hard problems
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills