Job Vacancies at Amazon

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Job summary
We are seeking an experienced recruiter to join our dynamic recruiting team supporting hiring. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted platform, offering over 200 fully-featured services from data centers globally.

The successful candidate will focus in the areas of candidate talent search and engagement. You will play a critical role in providing full resourcing services and ensure that we meet a rapidly growing business's ongoing needs. Responsibilities include building an attraction strategy, interview process and offer .

You will foster a collaborative team environment and a strongly service-oriented culture, ensuring delivery of an efficient, effective, quality-driven service to internal customers to meet customer service level agreements.

You must be able to successfully manage talent searches and have experience setting benchmarks and metrics and understanding how to prioritize in a fast-paced environment, with tight deadlines. The successful individual thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment, and he/she can effectively engage and partner with peers.

You will draw on extensive knowledge of talent acquisition and forge dynamic relationships with hiring managers and other recruiters. It would help if you had strong skills and technique on candidate generation, negotiation, organization, verbal, and written communication skills. The successful candidate will also have an ability to prioritize their time, demonstrate push-back and a sense of urgency, and understand the value of providing high-quality customer service.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to broaden their recruiting experience in a large-scale and high-performance recruiting organization that aligns to high technical roles. Our team culture is goal-oriented, fast-paced, and fun! We are motivated by the challenge (and success) of hiring top talent for the ever-expanding business.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

•  6+ years of corporate and/or agency technical recruiting experience including sourcing and full life cycle recruiting.

 Experience in recruiting technical talent.

•  Experiencing managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships.
•  Expertise in building and executing a recruiting strategy, including candidate , diversity sourcing, and interview process .
•  Experience working with recruiting and people-related tools and , including applicant tracking , resume databases, internet sourcing tools and complex spreadsheets.
•  Comfortable on writing documents and utilizing data.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
 Bachelor’s Degree.
 Client-focused and committed to continuous improvement;

•  Able to proactively network and establish effective working relationships.
•  Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, as a team member.
•  Passionate and interested in seeking new sourcing options and develop creative approaches to delivering candidates to the customer.
•  Strong communication, organizational and negotiation skills, with a keen focus on delivering business results.
•  Self-sufficient and able to work with little direct supervision

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.

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Do you get excited about solving challenging problems with global scale? Come join our team of innovative software developers that are building a next generation infrastructure management service that will help internal AWS teams continue to scale and manage their global service footprint. You will have a wide reach as your customers are internal AWS teams located all around the world.

We believe in using the right tools to solve the problem. Java and Python are common languages used in our space, but not limited to these. We believe in leveraging our public AWS services for internal use, so you will get to build with services like S3, EC2, DynamoDB, Step Functions, Lambda, and more.

As an experienced engineer in the team, you have a role to play in developing high quality software designs and implementing solutions autonomously to address the ambiguous challenges we encounter. We use an agile approach to iterate quickly.

At Amazon, we believe learning is never done. You will have access to extensive training material that covers all dimensions of the AWS tools and will be presented with opportunities to leverage and contribute to internal communities, demos and knowledge sharing sessions to assist you in reaching your career goals. Our team is welcoming and supportive towards new team members through mentoring and coaching.

Having career and growth opportunities is a priority, and we have clear growth paths for our technical roles. You will partner with your manager to define and track your career plan.

Most of our team is based in Cape Town. Under normal circumstances, we mostly work from the office, but you will have the flexibility to manage your own time. Occasionally we work with our colleagues across the world meaning we accommodate different time-zones. This position involves on-call responsibilities. We continuously prioritize efforts to automate ourselves out of operational responsibilities to ensure the impact is minimal.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, curious engineer to join us building this new service. Apply now and come build with us!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

•  Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience
•  3+ years of industry experience in a software development environment
•  Strong Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
•  Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Java, C#, Python, Javascript, Scala, Kotlin, C++, GoLang

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

•  Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative solutions in a performant environment.
•  Analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities.
•  Effective written communication and verbal agility are strong assets.
•  Working knowledge of AWS products and technologies.
•  Working knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.

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.

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Job summary
This position is inside the EC2 Mist team, which owns the service responsible for the orchestration of creating, modifying, and terminating EC2 Instances. We collaborate with many of the teams in AWS to introduce new customer facing features on our APIs. We're thus a pivotal team in EC2, and we're hiring!

Key job responsibilities

• If successful, you will be responsible for the development and operation of core EC2 control-plane infrastructure that launches hundreds of thousands of EC2 instances every day and manages millions of resources. As a Senior Software Development Engineer in this team you will contribute to a wide range of projects in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment. You will become part of an industry-leading engineering team solving challenging problems at massive scale.

About the team

• We are a diverse team which is dedicated to supporting new members. The team environment celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy mentoring more junior members. This includes assisting in onboarding new hires, and supporting continued career growth. Projects and tasks are assigned to each team member to develop their skills, allowing them to take on more complex tasks as they progress.
• We operate from the Amazon Development Center South Africa, in the heart of the beautiful city of Cape Town. If you're not from Cape Town, we offer comprehensive relocation as a part of our package.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

•  5+ years of industry experience
•  Experience with a programming language such as Java, Perl, or C/C++
•  BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

•  Strong Computer Science fundamentals
•  Strong analytical skills and problem solving abilities
•  Experience in delivering high-quality, innovative applications

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.