Job Information
Amazon Systems Engineer, Prime Video adtech, Prime Video adtech in Arlington, Virginia
Description
As System Engineer, in our fast growing and innovative team, you will help maintain and support large-scale systems that power dynamic ad insertion (DAI) for live sports and live events. Your work will directly impact millions of viewers worldwide, ensuring seamless ad delivery with high performance and seamless ad delivery with high performance and low latency. This is a unique opportunity to work on complex problems in the high through put, real-time streaming domain, bringing on customers an exceptional viewing experience.
Key job responsibilities
We are currently looking for a Systems Engineer to help us optimize and grow our infrastructure. Our services operate at scale and support Live events Dynamic ad insertion, so a passion and discipline around operational excellence is key. In this role you will have the opportunity to:
Drive continual improvement in systems operations through tool building and automation.
Drive root cause analyses.
Scale our services: Lead the planning, forecasting, and technical approaches to operating at peak scale.
Monitor and report on the health of our services at an executive level.
Collaborate with and learn from world-class leaders to meet world-class challenges, every day.
Work in an environment where operational excellence is truly the first priority, and where the degree of automation is above bar.
A day in the life
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Sciences, or equivalent work experience
5+ years of relevant hands-on systems engineering and administrative experience cloud-based administration.
Knowledge and high proficiency in AWS services.
Experience supporting Live events and streaming services (monitoring, troubleshooting, scaling)
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Sciences, or equivalent work experience
5+ years of relevant hands-on systems engineering and administrative experience in networking and cloud-based administration
Knowledge and high proficiency in managing Linux and Windows servers
Basic Python or PowerShell scripting competency
Experience supporting on-premise third party solutions (monitoring, troubleshooting, scaling)
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
experience in systems engineering and technical administration. Experience in ad insertion and streaming technologies.
Hands-on knowledge of AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3).
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