Telecom Ops Engineer, Amazon Connect

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Want to disrupt an industry by delighting customers Looking for a job where your work can have direct and massive impact Excited to join one of the newest and most exciting AWS services Come be a leader on a team that is building a product that will touch millions of people daily.

Amazon Connect is a highly disruptive cloud-based contact centre that enables businesses to deliver engaging dynamic and personal customer service experiences. Amazon Connect is the result of the ten years of development that went into building the tools Amazon uses to provide its award-winning customer service at massive scale and launching it as a publicly available AWS service. With Amazon Connect you can create your own cloud-based contact centre and be taking calls in minutes. Amazon Connect leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence and the large ecosystem of AWS services such as Amazon Lex Amazon Polly AWS Lambda Amazon S3 and Amazon Kinesis to provide a truly frustration free easy-to-use extensible and natural customer experience. With this technology we are transforming an industry and the way customers interact with businesses and how agents service them.

We are seeking Systems Engineers who are experts in SIP/VoIP to join our Sydney team to help us support and expand the Amazon Connect telecom infrastructure. Amazon Connect supports thousands of concurrent customer calls and tens of thousands of agents using an internally developed SIP based Call Centre Platform. Our technology is compelling as it solves a common problem in a novel way and it is unique in the industry. We are looking for engineers to help us expand our infrastructure to new global regions support existing implementations and innovate telecom network operations through tooling and processes to improve customer productivity. Be part of the team that handles large amount of phone calls among the largest in contact centre platforms globally.

The position represents a rare opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing business soon after launch and help shape the technology and product as we grow. You will be playing a crucial role in developing the next generation telecom infrastructure and get the opportunity to design and deliver scalable resilient systems while maintaining a constant customer focus.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience working with preferably in a large scale distributed environments. You understand technology and how servers and networks inter-relate. You regularly take part in deep-dive troubleshooting and conduct technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues.

Troubleshooting Expert. You look for difficult challenges and revel in the satisfaction of solving complex issues. High pressure situations focus your attention instead of destroying your concentration.

Love to code. The ideal candidate will love using technology to solve problems with simple solutions. You have a solid understanding of software development methodology and know how to use the right tool for the right job.

Customer Obsessed. The ideal candidate enjoys working with customers to help them get the best experience using Amazon Connect.

Think Big. The ideal candidate will build and support solutions across thousands of devices. You will strive to improve and streamline processes to allow for work on a massive scale.

What is in it for you
Team culture: Youll be joining a fun team that prides itself on a great work environment with an inclusive group of people that loves working together towards a common goal.

Impact: Work on a service that will be used directly and indirectly by millions of customers and has a meaningful impact to their functions and interactions.

Gratification: You will know you are directly responsible for solving real customer problems.

Critical and Fast: This is a strategic new business for AWS and we are moving fast really fast.

Ownership: You will quickly become responsible for key components of the service and drive what and how to build them.

Learn & Grow: If you want to learn and grow with challenges of a designing and building a large-scale fault-tolerant systems this is an opportunity of a life time.

Innovate: We learn from our customers and invent every day on their behalf.

Make history: AWS is the leader in a current industry-wide revolution and specifically at Amazon Connect we are changing the way customers think about contact centres.

Have fun: Surround yourself with a highly talented pool of engineers that like to solve complex problems but also work in a fun and autonomous environment.

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- Bachelors degree or 5 years of relevant experience in a large scale environment
- 3 years of network and operating system support experience
- 3 years of Telephony related experience (ie SIP RTP VOIP Open source voice services)
- Working knowledge of Linux system administration
- Experience in systems automation using common scripting languages


- Experience troubleshooting telephony systems
- Experience with open-source VoIP systems like Asterisk Free-Switch SIPp SER etc
- Operational experience in a 24/7 production environment
- 3 years experience with cloud computing technologies
- Experience working as part of a global team
- Experience automating routine tasks


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