System Development Engineer Region Reliability Engineering

Would you like to implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the worlds most complex technical problems Do you have a deep passion and desire to engineer and operate the worlds largest cloud computing infrastructure to build a better world for future generations

This is an exciting opportunity to use the latest cloud computing technologies to help U.S. Government agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems.

AWS established a specialized group of service teams responsible for the work we are doing with the U.S. Intelligence Community. We are building some of the largest and most complex distributed systems in the world and we need adaptable people to help us implement and operate them. Youd work with some of the best and brightest engineers in the industry while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.

Our services operate at large scale with workloads critical to national security. These missioncritical cloud computing solutions require a relentless focus on operational excellence. Given the national security implications of our services a deep passion for delivering reliable secure and highperforming infrastructure is essential. You will share big ideas and execute to deliver the next big innovations at rapid pace. You are a believer in the DevOps model of service engineering and you are excited to run operations in an environment where developers dont toss problems over the wall but solve them. And you are happiest when you are working with empowered worldclass engineers to meet worldclass challenges. Finally with your strong ownership bias you have an infectious desire to continually improve how things are done.

We need a technical detailoriented Engineers focused on operational excellence to driving best practices through the business. You will excel at hiring Training and developing Engineers and developing novel systems for specific toil reduction efforts. You will grow fellow engineers in your organization and lead a charter that grows as your organization grows.

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that after start the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

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Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities

You deliver technology solutions which improve engineering and operational processes within your team and work to apply those improvements to partner teams.
You are a technical leader for your team; you are learning to force multiply through others.
You demonstrate ownership of your teams systems proactively identifying and mitigating extant risks and deficiencies. You work to reduce complexity and enable greater agility for your team and other teams in your organization.
You understand how your teams systems interact with systems owned by others and work to improve consistency and integration between them.
You think in terms of architecture not just components or services and show good judgement when making tradeoffs between tactical and strategic concerns at team or service level. Your work on your teams architecture yields significant resilience performance or business value.
You actively participate in reviews of systems owned by partner teams.
You consistently work backwards from the customer experience to ensure correct solutions are built and incorrect ones are not.
You are an effective communicator. When disagreements occur you harmonize discordant views and build consensus amongst peers across teams.

A day in the life
Your systems code designs and implementation decisions set a great example to others. You work efficiently and routinely deliver the right things.
You actively hire and develop others by leveraging your expertise coaching and mentoring in your organization.

You influence your teams technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach.
You lead reviews of architecture design operations process or postincident analysis for your team.
You lead the design implementation and successful delivery of technical solutions for complex problems.

Region Reliabilitys Engineering (RRE) mission is to automate Keeping the Lights On work across US ADCs. RRE will drive greater consistency in operational practices across organizations reducing duplicative efforts and refining and adopting best practices more quickly.

About the team
Region Reliability Engineering
REgion Reliability Engineering supports AWS Utility Computing (UC) in all partitions and who provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (IoT) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (IoT) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employeeled affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Work/Life Balance
We value worklife harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship and Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing mentorship and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

2 years of noninternship professional software development experience
1 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Bachelors degree or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby
Current active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

7 years of administrative experience in networking storage systems operating systems and handson systems engineering experience
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.