The online retail giant is recruiting a range of roles include engineers, software developers, data scientists, and cloud and machine learning experts, along with a number of entry-level positions.

Around 170 of the new jobs will be highly-skilled roles at Amazon’s development centres in Cambridge, Edinburgh and London. 

However, Amazon adds it also plans to hire graduates and interns in a variety of technical, non-technical and operations roles. 

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