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Information / Communication Information Service Activities Digital Infrastructure Services 63.1 - Data processing, hosting and related activities; web portals
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
30 May 2016
Employment effect (start)
30 May 2016
Foreseen end date
1 January 2018
Description
Amazon is to hire 500 new recruits by 2018. The roles, based in Dublin, will be in software development, network development, data centre engineering, systems engineering, optical deployment engineering, as well as jobs for security specialists, big data specialists, DevOps engineers, and a range of technical management positions.
Amazon already employs 1,700 people at its two sites in Dublin and Cork. The company first set up in Dublin in 2004.
In 2014 Amazon announced an expansion of 300 people; this recruitment was completed earlier than expected.
Sources
30 May 2016: RTE
30 May 2016: The Irish Times
30 May 2016: Silicon Republic.com
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Amazon, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 87625, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87625.
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