Amazon Jobs 2023 – Reliability Engineer

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Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today, and we’re just getting started changing the way millions of people around the world enjoy content. Now available in more than 240 countries and territories, Prime Video offers customers the broadest selection of any on-demand video service, including our critically-acclaimed Amazon Originals Series such as the multi-award-winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Fleabag, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Boys, The Underground Railroad, and Golden Globe winner Small Axe; UK-produced hit Amazon Original series like Good Omens, The Grand Tour, All or Nothing: Manchester City and forthcoming drama series The Power; exclusive TV shows like Star Trek: Picard, American Gods and Vikings; and movies like Oscar winning Sound of Metal, Borat, and Manchester by the Sea, Oscar nominated Time and One Night in Miami, Late Night and Get Duked, plus live sport including ATP and WTA Tour and US Open Tennis and Premier League football.

Amazon Studios is the movies and television development and production arm of Amazon. It is our role to produce original content and license studio programs worldwide in exclusive service of Amazon’s Prime Video customers. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help take us to new heights.

The Studios Technology Services team supports production personnel (cast and crew) and Studios business teams (production operations, post production, and marketing). We work in a team environment and interact with production personnel and studio executives at all levels. Our Infrastructure Engineering team is looking for Site Reliability Engineers to build, deploy, operate, and sustain our critical infrastructure and systems.

Key job responsibilities

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.

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.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience working with AWS Infrastructure in a production environment
• Experience of development and automation in AWS, Python, Go, Ruby, Java, or other related languages
• Exposure to configuration management systems like Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Prior experience implementing design, design patterns, architecture, reliability and scaling of new and current systems.
• Prior experience with working within agile framework and executing processes improvement
• Prior experience working with monitoring tools like Datadog, New relic and managing incident escalations

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience designing and deploying AWS infrastructure and services
• Prior experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, etc
• Prior experience identifying and solving ambiguous problems, architecture deficiencies, or areas where the team’s systems bottleneck the innovation of other teams.
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate your ideas effectively to achieve the right outcome for the team and customer.
• Prior experiencing leading design reviews.
• Demonstrates the ability to influence technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach.

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Company – Amazon Digital UK Limited

Job ID: A1873212