System Development Engineer II

Do you like helping U.S. Intelligence Community agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies Do you have a knack for helping these groups understand application architectures and integration approaches and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world leader in providing a highly reliable scalable lowcost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world!

Amazon is seeking multiple Systems Development Engineer(s) with the ability to develop/build software and/or services from the ground up and automate software development pipelines and workloads. A good candidate will have excellent Linux/Unix knowledge including shell scripting and a proficiency in at least one development language. They will be able to think at Amazon scale to solve problems in permanent sustainable and scalable ways. With an eye toward utilizing the best solution over the quickest solution.

AWS service teams rely on our tools to help ensure that the experiences of their customers are consistent across commercial and airgapped AWS regions. The Systems Development Engineers on the team are responsible for designing deploying automating and operating the systems where our software and services operate. This includes troubleshooting problems with systems and services regular deployment of new versions of the systems and their subcomponents deployment/system validation and testing service monitoring standing up new services/tools etc.

The team(s) works with many different internal Software Development teams to drive improvement of the systems/services within the teams scope. It is important to be able to work collaboratively and independently to investigate and document issues and create solutions to solve them at scale.

By working together on behalf of our customers we are building the future one innovative product service and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge Come build the future with us.

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.

Key job responsibilities
Play a significant role in building new systems and solutions
Drive an environment of continuous improvement and truly innovative efficiency
Work crossfunctionally with other teams to continually improve operational readiness and availability
Anticipate bottlenecks make tradeoffs and encourage risktaking to maximize business benefit
Evaluate and recommend new and emerging products and technologies
Drive operation excellence in your organization.

A day in the life
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.

About the team
*ADC2S Vertical*
The ADC2S team is responsible for maintaining commercial parity in airgapped regions by responding to operational needs and deploying feature requests including bigticket items such as region build handover. Engineers are expected to work with a high degree of autonomy build strong relationships with the service team counterparts and leverage their technical depth and problem solving ability to resolve difficult and ambiguous issues.

*AWS Cutlass Team*
The Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineering team is dedicated to building automated platforms and solutions to streamline the AWS build and deployment process in dedicated regions. Our vision is to fully automate and enable zerotouch AWS deployments thereby reducing the time it takes to deploy new features and freeing engineers to focus on building new services and capabilities.

Cutlass develops and operates service builders across Amazon use improving their operational experience. We enable ticket notifications from airgapped regions and build platforms that put data in the right places for other tools to leverage which all adds up to a reduction of toil and operational inconsistency from one region to another.

*AWS Region Services (RS) Region Build*
The AWS Region Build Team orchestrates the delivery of large fastpaced software and hardware projects into AWS regions around the world to meet the growing demand for AWS services. Building these complex regions and the continuous service launch cycle requires exceptionally talented focused and driven people to align timelines with business needs identify technical and resourcing risks resolve multifaceted conflicts and to evolve best practices and operations. We are seeking an experienced manager to lead and drive a team of Technical Program Managers (TPMs) that will deliver AWS capabilities to our global customers.

*Cross Domain Services (CDS) Secure Connection Services (SCS)*
Secure Connection Services vision is to relentlessly reduce the data to decision timeline for our Public Sector customers by developing near real time secure connectivity edge and cryptographic capabilities enabling air land sea and space missions. To achieve this vision our strategy is to deliver a set of connectivity and edge capabilities to meet the diversified needs of our customers missions.

*Messaging and Streams Team (MAST)*
The Messaging and Streams Team (MAST) is responsible for operations and of the Messaging (SNS/SQS/AMQ) and Streaming (KDS/KDF/KDA/MSK) services in Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) and GovCloud regions.

*Amazon Monitoring and Observability (AMO)*
AMO Provides AWS CloudWatch services to our Isolated region customers for actionable visibility into the health of their applications and systems. Key features include web services for submission and retrieval of measurements a console for presentation and the ability to notify and automate based on results.

*Simple Storage Solutions (S3G) Unique Regions Engineering*
We are focused on the daytoday operations and long term health of S3 within ADC partitions. This includes feature launches and feature parity with commercial ultimately supporting all of S3s
pipelines. We evangelize automation solutions whenever possible delivering on S3s goal to eliminate all repetitive manual operations.

7 years of administrative experience in networking storage systems operating systems and handson systems engineering experience
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
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

9 years of administrative experience in networking storage systems operating systems and handson systems engineering experience
3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
Experience in automating deploying and supporting largescale infrastructure

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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.