Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

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Have you ever had the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of people in a meaningful way and help them enjoy time away with their friends and families building memories? That is what we do here at HomeAway.com. We are the leading vacation rental website in the world with more than 1.2 million properties listed. We have millions of visitors to our site per year and serve more than one million page views per month. As for engineering, we solve problems of scale and work on cutting edge and open-source technologies. Our culture is one that strives on solving difficult problems focusing on product engineering based on hypothesis testing to empower people to come up with ideas. Job Description:

As a Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer on the Hosting Operations Engineering Team you will be in charge of deploying and supporting our cloud-based solution. You will help our team build scalable, highly available, reliable, and secure deployments on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. You will be working on the latest technologies within the AWS ecosystem supporting thousands of instances running tens of thousands of containers. Amazon Web Services we use are EC2, VPC, Direct Connect, Route53, S3, RDS, ELB, Lambda, CloudWatch and CloudTrail and our Container tech is Docker, Mesos and Marathon. You will be working in a collaborative environment, mentoring and learning, and building your skill set while challenging yourself to solve real world problems.


Responsibilities:
- Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, secure, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
- Evaluating and improving existing AWS deployments.
- Identifying appropriate use of AWS deployment and operational best practices.
- Handling response to for escalated support, on call support.

- Be creative in the use of technology in solving problems that have a huge impact on our revenue.

Qualifications:
- You know how to migrate to and managing services in AWS EC2, EBS, VPC, Route53, S3, RDS, ELB, Lambda, CloudFront and CloudFormation.
- You have worked with container technologies and understand micro-services architecture. We are using Docker, Mesos, Marathon, Consul currently.
- Have used tools from HashiCorp (Terraform, Consul, Packer) to automate everything you can.
- Demonstrated experience in delivering consistent system administration and documentation to operational teams, including feedback on system
performance and service.
- Strong understanding of hardware, security, storage, networking and database capacity.
- Proven experience with systems scripting (Ruby, bash, Python or similar) or Java code and the desire to develop and learn more.
- Experience troubleshooting Java applications and supporting the underlying system and services.

- Experience with backups and patch management.

- Initiative to self-start, take ownership and demonstrate responsibility to work issues to completion

- Able to support on-call & non-standard hours as required

- Demonstrable knowledge of multi-tiered applications and troubleshooting web services.
- No “mother hen” qualities of code ownership, be willing to set aside your working solution for a better one without attitude.

- Ability to express complex ideas with a white board and to teams with various technical backgrounds.

Benefits:
- Great Medical & Dental Plans
- Highly Competitive salary
- Target annual bonus
- Company stock (RSUs)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- 4 weeks paid vacation
- Free vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
- Ability to work up to two weeks in any of our offices around the world on a yearly basis
- Free drinks & snacks
- Weekly company update talks with our leadership team
- Free listing on HomeAway.com
- Electric adjustable stand up desk
- Casual dress code

To understand the mission of HomeAway watch our ad by Prince EA, Working to Live or Living to Work, on our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNRldP18bH8!

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