Job Description
Primary responsibilities include troubleshooting, diagnosing and fixing production software issues, developing monitoring solutions, performing software maintece and configuration, implementing the fix for internally developed code (Perl, Ruby, Java), performing SQL queries, updating, tracking and resolving technical challenges. Responsibilities also include working alongside development on Amazon Corporate and Divisional Software projects, updating/enhancing our current software, automation of support processes and documentation of our systems. The ideal candidate must be detail oriented, have superior verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, able to juggle multiple tasks at once, able to work independently and can maintain professionalism under pressure. You must be able to identify problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages. You must be able to accurately prioritize projects, make sound judgments, work to improve the customer experience, and get the right things done. As a Support Engineer you will:
Play vital role in helping us leverage supporting and developing technologies on any platform to increase global collaboration, increase efficiency, and meet our controller ship requirements
Directly work with development teams to improve the applications built by conducting technical mitigations and deep dives on reported issues to find the cause and corrective actions
Work with our other technical teams to ensure the design is effective and complements of our in house custom developed applications across platform stacks (including SQL, Java/.NET/C#/Perl/Python) or SaaS
Work on proactive detection mechanism to report dip in software performance by building efficient metrics/monitors/alarms using our in house tools
Build tools and automations to optimize the system, simplify processes, etc. 2+ years of software development, or 2+ years of technical support experience
Experience scripting in modern program languages
Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems Knowledge of web services, distributed systems, and web application development
Experience troubleshooting & maintaining hardware & software RAID
Experience with REST web services, XML, JSON
Experience in Unix
Experience scripting in one or more language (e.g. Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby)
Job Classification
Industry: Internet
Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: DBA / Data warehousing
Role: Database Administrator
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: Amazon
Location(s): Hyderabad
Keyskills:
Unix
Automation
Application support
XML
Debugging
Perl
JSON
Troubleshooting
Technical support
Python