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Amazon Senior Systems Engineer in Newark, New Jersey
Description
At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will manage maintenance duties such as patching, firmware updates, and software deployments, and work on improving these activities. As Audible continues to expand and adapt to a different way of working, you will also be an integral part of helping to redefine and evolve the company's storage, server, and network infrastructure with respect to both software and hardware to meet the needs of a hybrid workplace.
ABOUT YOU
You have familiarity with on-call rotations, supporting 24x7 operations, and is able to navigate various challenges to quickly find solutions for issues with the aforementioned infrastructure. Not every problem will have a clear starting point so you should be comfortable dealing with ambiguity to assess and manage risks and have situational awareness to anticipate and resolve potential issues. If you enjoy solving these complex technical and business problems from the ground up, we are interested in you.
As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will...
Assist with the day-to-day systems administration, project implementations, and IT operations
Provide support of Audible’s infrastructure (hardware, software, and OS) including but not limited to servers, workstations, and networking
Contribute to the team's infrastructure technology planning to ensure site resiliency as well as hardware lifecycle management
Maintain and enforce Information Security policies such as application security, identity and access management, disk and file level encryption solutions, governance, compliance and audit
Assist in the continuous development of current software applications, scripts, and automations
Monitor infrastructure capacity needs and ensure that systems are capable of handling unanticipated or future utilization
Be an escalation point for the team and provide technical leadership to appropriate personnel on system administration and engineering activities
Work with the team to manage the processing of incoming support requests ensuring effective and timely resolution of issues including coordinating with other departments to ensure problems are satisfactorily resolved
ABOUT AUDIBLE
Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. Our Hub+Home hybrid workplace model gives employees the flexibility between gathering in a common office space (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Newark, NJ, USA
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or relevant work experience
4+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Dev Ops Engineer or equivalent
Experience with AWS core services such as EC2, ECS, IAM, Lamdba, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and KMS
Experience with networking concepts such as DNS, DHCP, Email, HTTP, SSL, OSI Model, and TCP/IP protocols and applications
Proficiency with a modern programming/scripting language such as Python or PowerShell
Preferred Qualifications
Working knowledge of iSCSI SAN data storage devices
Familiarity with virtualization and clustering, with an emphasis on Hyper-V as well as Amazon Web Services
Knowledge of industry best practices and strategies related to IT security, server engineering and administration, monitoring, storage, backup, and high availability
Results oriented and delivery focused, with proven experience leading infrastructure and engineering tasks
Verbal and written communications skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
Sharp analytical abilities and proven problem solving skills
Strong ability to multi-task and handle multiple priorities in a fast paced environment
Ability to operate with autonomy with little oversight or direction
Experience with the installation, monitoring, and administration of HVAC, UPS, and MDF/IDF environmental devices
Advanced networking knowledge including router and switch administration
Advanced application debugging and systems analysis skills to be able to identify and quickly resolve/mitigate issues
Vendor and software licensing management
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