Amazon, an American online retail giant is set to deepen its services in South Africa. The company has plans to launch a Special Africa Region within the first six months of 2020 in Cape Town. They are therefore looking to offer over 100 jobs for the Web Services segment of Amazon.
Amazon has been in Cape Town since 2004. The company moved into an eight-floor building in Cape Town in late 2018. The positions available for possible recruitment include; software developers, support engineers and infrastructure managers, UX designers, data scientists and security experts.
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Majority of the offers require multilingual professionals who speak Dutch and German, and can easily cover work on its different systems: AWS, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and E2M. Although the company’s location is in Cape Town, Amazon has however noted that they are offering a comprehensive relocation package to all interested applicants.
Amazon opened a development centre in Cape Town in 2004. The centre focuses on building ground-breaking networking technologies, next-generation software for customer support and the technology behind Amazon EC2. AWS opened an office in Johannesburg in 2015, and in 2017 brought the Amazon Global Network to Africa through AWS Direct Connect.
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