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Amazon Support Engineer III in Chennai, TennesseeIndia
Description
Are you interested in joining the team behind Amazon’s newest innovation? Come help us work on world class software for our customers!
The Amazon Kindle Engineering Support team provides tier 3/4 production engineering support and is also responsible for providing multifaceted services to the Kindle digital product family of development teams and working with production operations teams for software product release coordination and deployment. This job requires you to hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks that will define your success.
Some of the key job functions: - Provide support of incoming tickets, including extensive troubleshooting tasks, with responsibilities covering multiple products, features and services
Work on operations and maintenance driven coding projects, primarily in Perl or shell scripts, web technologies, with the potential for Java based projects
Software deployment support in staging and production environments
Develop tools to aid operations and maintenance
System and Support status reporting
Ownership of one or more Digital products or components
Customer notification and workflow coordination and follow-up to maintain service level agreements
Work with support team for handing-off or taking over active support issues and creating a team specific knowledge base and skill set
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Chennai, TN, IND
Basic Qualifications
2+ years of software development, or 2+ years of technical support experience
Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
Experience in Unix
Experience scripting in modern program languages
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of web services, distributed systems, and web application development
Experience scripting in one or more language (e.g. Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby)
Experience with REST web services, XML, JSON