Systems Engineer, Global Payments Services (Seattle, WA)
Posted by webmaster@craigslist.org on September 8, 2010
Are you interested in being part of a fast paced technology company offering the next generation of secure online payment systems and services? Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, Washington, is the global leader in e-commerce.
An immediate need exists for a Systems Engineer within Amazon Global Payments Services (GPS). The GPS SE team is responsible for all of Amazon’s core Payments systems. Additionally, this team is involved in the full development and operational lifecycles of our globally distributed, multi-billion dollar processing, high scale systems and applications.
Job Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Managing high security Payments server Infrastructure.
- Designing and integrating secure network connectivity with Payments partners.
- Analyzing and improving availability, efficiency, capacity, scalability, security and performance of Payments systems.
- Developing and maintaining operations tools.
- Ownership of many production components.
- Monitoring of production applications, including designing and implementing automated methods to monitor production applications.
- Troubleshooting and resolving problems with production systems.
- Documenting production systems.
- Representing GPS while working with internal teams and external banking/financial partners.
GPS Systems Engineers are expected to have a strong sense of ownership of one or more areas while being encouraged to specialize in related specific areas (like tools programming, security or networking).
Essential Skills:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent and at least 3-5 years of relevant experience.
- Expert knowledge of Unix/Linux.
- Excellent knowledge of server hardware troubleshooting.
- Experience in deploying and supporting web and/or payments applications in a 24x7 production environment.
- Knowledge of TCP/IP networking & security fundamentals (DNS, Secure File Transfers, Routing, Switching, Firewalls, WANs, etc.) .
- Functional Scripting/Programming knowledge (e.g. Perl (preferred), Shell, Python, etc.).
- Excellent customer service, communication, documentation, work prioritization and analytical skills.
Desirable Skills:
- C/C++/Java and Web Services programming. Prior experience in product development is a huge plus.
- Performance tuning (especially web servers, middleware and databases (Oracle preferred))
- Cisco certification (CCNA or higher) or equivalent networking experience
- Expert knowledge of application and infrastructure security
- Database programming and administration
Other Requirements:
- GPS System Engineers will be part of a 12x7 (globally split 24x7) on-call rotation (pager, cellphone) for Payments systems.
If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=974489-1812-4195
