Graduate and Experienced Jobs at Amazon

Job Responsibilities Include
As an intern you will go through induction training before joining your team. You will drive your own learning and development with guidance and coaching from your manager, buddy and colleagues around you.
You will be part of a team of Amazon software engineers and you will help them create complex tools in several different programming languages that will help improve the quality of Amazon's catalogue. You'll create professional quality software by applying software engineering best practices, while being exposed to cutting edge technologies.

Basic Qualifications

• Currently on a Bachelors/ Masters degree relevant to Computer Engineering/ Computer Science/ Software Engineering etc.
• Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, algorithm design, data structures, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Knowledge in Ruby, Perl, Java or C/C++.

Preferred Qualifications

• Development Experience in Java, C, C++, Perl, Linux
• Interest in developing web services, or other large scale distributed systems

Application and Assessment Process
Eligible candidates will be invited to attend an online assessment post which successful candidates will be invited to an in-house assessment centre. This selection process is subject to change but you will be notified if any changes are made.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.
Company - Amazon Dev Centre South Africa
Job ID: A928294

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Job Responsibilities Include
Since we have a wide variety of projects and technologies, we are looking for different profiles, from engineers interested in front-end development (for our hybrid mobile applications and website) to back-end engineers to develop the systems that power our warehouse (focused in solving complex multi-objective resource allocation problems), including machine learning engineers for our recommendation or fraud detection systems.

Basic Qualifications

• Completed or currently on a Bachelors/ Masters degree related to Computer Engineering/ Computer Science/ Software Engineering etc.
• Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, algorithm design, data structures, problem solving, and complexity analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Development Experience in Java, C, C++, Perl, Linux
• Interest in developing web services, or other large scale distributed systems
• Understanding and experience with web based technologies is essential. These may include HTML, HTTP, Javascript, JSON, AJAX, - - Apache, Tomcat, Ruby on Rails.

Application and Assessment Process
Eligible candidates will be invited to attend an online assessment post which successful candidates will be invited to an in-house assessment centre. This selection process is subject to change but you will be notified if any changes are made.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.
Company - Amazon Dev Centre South Africa
Job ID: A928298

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Job Responsibilities Include

• Apply advanced monitoring and troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs
• Work directly with Amazon Web Service engineers to help reproduce and resolve customer issues Troubleshoot AWS services such as: EC2, EBS, VPC, ELB, S3
• Work support cases from our AWS Support customers and troubleshoot to resolution
• Configuring Linux servers
• Deploying and configuring Windows servers, deploying & configuring Microsoft products and troubleshooting windows issues
• Designing cloud network solutions and troubleshooting complex networking issues

Basic Qualifications

• Completed or currently on a Bachelors/ Masters degree related to computer science, information technology or information systems
• User level knowledge of Linux (Basic administration), Networking (Basic), Troubleshooting and Internet fundamentals

Preferred Qualifications

• Interested in Technology and working with customers
• Knowledge of Cloud Computing concepts
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with scripting / programing
• Passionate to work with customers
• Internship experience

Application and Assessment Process
Eligible candidates will complete an initial phone interview. The final stage is an in-house assessment centre. This selection process is subject to change but you will be notified if any changes are made.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae
Company - Amazon Dev Centre South Africa
Job ID: A928302

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Description
The EC2 Placement Data team, is tasked with building and owning a data-plane for EC2 Placement and building a new Datalake service for EC2 Capacity Engineering. The team will utilize performance-optimized streaming to pull real-time data from multiple sources; join it; and vend it to our instance placement engine with minimized staleness. The team will also vend the data to support innovation of our simulation, prototyping, ML, and research. Given EC2's (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) scale, there are wide-ranging and sizeable up-sides to this initiative.

We have a vacancy for senior software development engineer to join this team. The role will be based at our Amazon Development Centre South Africa.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience in a software development environment
• Industry experience designing and implementing large scale Datalakes and Datawarehouse solutions.
• Industry experience with bigdata technologies: Hadoop, Apache Spark, EMR, HBase, Flink, Hive, among others
• Experience in any of Java, Scala, Ruby, Python, C/C++ or C#
• Experience in data persistence or streaming
• Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative applications
• Strong customer focus
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience in building high-performance real-time data processing systems.
• Experience with Linux, Git, and Java.
• Knowledge of system performance methodologies along with hands on empirical monitoring
• Strong desire to build, a sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Excellent written communication and verbal agility

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.
Company - Amazon Dev Centre South Africa
Job ID: A928375

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Description

• Moderate all customer reviews and respond to email queries
• Meets or exceeds quality and productivity goals assigned by management
• Demonstrates clear and polite written and oral communication
• Maintains a positive and professional demeanor and portrays the company in a positive light
• Demonstrates appropriate sense of urgency for reviews moderation and email response and service levels
• Follows company policies and processes in order to process customer requests appropriately
• Demonstrates knowledge and use of departmental resources, policies and procedures.
• Uses customer service tools in order to provide an accurate response and an exceptional customer experience
• Escalates customer issues appropriately and correctly. Demonstrates timely, accurate and professional customer service
• Proactively communicates system and process issues, and customer feedback trends to management
• Exceeds customer expectations by going above and beyond all other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• Must be fluent in Italian and English (Speak, Read and Write)
• Completed NQF Level 4
• 1+ year of relevant customer service experience
• Internet navigation and troubleshooting Skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook and MS Office applications
• Excellent communication skills (spoken and written)
• Flexibility in work schedule -(Shifts will possibly start and end outside of normal business hours)

Preferred Qualifications

• Some college degree preferred
• 1+ year of relevant phone or email customer service experience
• Ability to multi-task with phone and computer skills
• Experience working in a customer service or call center preferred
• Experience working under pressure in a fast-paced work environment while consistently meeting standards for productivity and quality
• Demonstrated ability to work as an effective team member

Company - Amazon Dev Centre South Africa
Job ID: A932272

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Description

• As a Data Center Senior Construction Manager you will be a part of creative, efficient team tasked with tackling fascinating and challenging problems building and supporting the operations of Amazon owned data centers. Amazon Construction Managers are part of a fast-paced team delivering data centers for our Customers.

Our data centers are industry leading examples of energy efficient, cost effective designs. The Data Center Senior Construction Manager is ultimately responsible for the oversight and review of all disciplines including civil, electrical, mechanical, controls, and architectural. The Construction Manager will also be responsible as a team member for delivering the most highly efficient and sophisticated electrical and mechanical systems in the world.
At Amazon we leverage unique opportunities presented to us by owning everything from the substation, to the server, and back to the cooling systems. We are diverse, upbeat, creative, team of engineers and managers working on a daily basis to develop innovative data centers for our Customers.

The Data Center Senior Construction Manager will be responsible for:

• Construction project management and oversight of construction related activities as they relate to new builds or general capital projects. This will include the ownership of the project scope, timeline, and budget.
• Direct interface with construction general contractors during the bidding, award, execution, and project closeout/punch list phases.
• Work with general contractors and vendors to deliver efficient and high quality project turn-overs.
• Lead negotiations with general contractors and evaluate bids/proposals with detail and accuracy.
• Creation of construction project scope and request for proposals.
• Capital requests/financial analysis of construction work including change orders, purchase orders, and invoicing.
• Construction project management for specific initiatives aimed at increasing the resiliency of our data centers.
• Constructability reviews of electrical and mechanical designs associated with the construction of new data centers or the optimization of existing data centers.
• Construction submittal review.
• Construction project quality control including the creation of a commissioning plan and support of the commissioning process.
• Recording and reporting key construction metrics to team members and management.
• Drive teams to perform troubleshooting and root-cause failure analysis associated with equipment or electrical failures.
• Be a leader within the group as well as within internal and external teams that support the data center.
• Travel to data center sites for engineering evaluations, electrical systems audits, mechanical system reviews, start-up testing, and full commissioning, as required.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Management or an equivalent engineering science OR 4+ years of related construction management experience in lieu of a degree.
• 7+ years of recent experience in construction management of large, complex projects involving large-scale mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) plants.
• Understand electrical engineering principles including breaker coordination studies, switch-gear sequence of operation applied for Brazil, according to the NTB (Normas Técnicas Brasileiras) related to electrical engineering, similar to US NEC code.
• Understand mechanical engineering principles for cooling systems.
• General contractor and vendor management experience (request for proposals, bidding, change orders) associated with construction and project execution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience directly related to the design or construction of data centers/critical infrastructure or large scale mechanical and electrical plants.
• Experience with large scale technical operations, mission-critical mechanical/electrical infrastructure, or large-scale compute farms.
• Define data center system-level architecture, specify/document performance and equipment requirements, create/communicate conceptual designs, and create/maintain project documentation.
• Knowledge of building codes and regulations following NTB (Normas Técnicas Brasileiras), similar to Life Safety, BOCA, NFPA, NEC, and OSHA.
• Value engineering: Proven ability to reduce costs through creative solutions with no impact on quality and reliability (new designs, technology, or construction methods).
• Experience in controls and commissioning of large scale projects.
• Experience with power management and power monitoring systems.
• Certifications such as Professional Engineer (PE), LEED, and/or Certified Construction Manager (CCM).
• Possess clear written and verbal communication skills and ability to use data to justify conclusions
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.
Company - Amzn Data Servcs SA (Pty) Ltd
Job ID: A931411