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Amazon Cloud Support Eng Databases AWS Engineering 
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town 
900021549

10.06.2024
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AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Mentorship & Career Growth
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Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)Key job responsibilities
Learn and use ground-breaking technologiesAmazon Web Services is the global market leader and technology forerunner in the Cloud business. As a member of the AWS Support team, you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology, assisting a global list of companies and developers that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications. As a Cloud Support Engineer, you will act as the ‘Cloud Ambassador’ across all the cloud products, arming our customers with required tools & tactics to get the most out of their Product and Support investment.A day in the life
· Apart from working on a broad spectrum of technical issues, an AWS Support Engineer may also coach/mentor new hires, develop & present training, partner with development teams on complex issues or contact deflection initiatives, participate in new hiring, write tools/script to help the team, or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives to ensure better CX and compliance with global AWS standards, practices and policies.
· Career development: We promote advancement opportunities across the organization to help you meet your career goals.
· Training: We have training programs to help you develop the skills required to be successful in your role.
· We hire smart people who are keen to build a career with AWS, so we are more interested in the areas that you do know instead of those you haven’t been exposed to yet.
· AWS Support is 24/7/365 operations and shift work will be required.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor’s degree AND 2 years relevant industry experience OR (if no degree) 3 years minimum relevant industry experience
- Experience with Database performance tuning, troubleshooting and setting up monitoring / alarming for production Database environments for Oracle/ MySQL/ PostgreSQL/ SQL Server
- A good understanding of distributed computing environments, and experience with Linux/Windows system administration fundamentals, troubleshooting monitoring and analysis
- Good understanding of DNS, TCP/IP protocols and troubleshooting related issues
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with customer service experience / a strong customer focus


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications OR relevant AWS services (EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, Dynamo DB, EMR) OR query analysers, query tuning, slow query optimization OR NoSQL technologies like Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, Riak
- Exposure to Virtualization (VMware, Xen, Hypervisor) and/or security concepts and best practices
- Understanding of IPsec, VPN, Load Balancing, Iperf, MTR, Routing Protocols, SSH, Networks