Manager III, Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineer, S3 (Level 6)

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.

The AWS Intelligence team is seeking highly motivated engineers who are focused on operational excellence and troubleshooting complex system operations have a good understanding of Linux networking and general knowledge of cloud services. We need engineers who understand how to think big and simplify solutions to complex problems; all the while ensuring that our customers continue to have the best experience possible.

Managing trillions of objects in storage retrieving them in subx ms building software that deploys to tens of thousands of hosts achieving 99.% (you didnt read that wrong thats 11 nines!) durability. These are just a few of the numbers that give you a sense of the scale of the exciting problems you will find every day working in Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon S3 powers businesses across the globe that make the lives of consumers better daily. Whether its electronic content delivered to your home technology that betters your remote working experience allows you to plan travel to exotic places or simply get stuff delivered to your home. As a Manager III Systems Engineering in S3 you get to deliver these capabilities and delight our customers through teams of talented engineers and leaders.

S3 is looking for a Systems Engineering Manager to lead a team to deliver S3s capabilities to the U.S. Intelligence Community and Defense agencies. We build operate and work with our agency customers to meet their mission needs leveraging the latest cloud technologies. Engineers on this diverse team enjoy diving deep into root causes of technical issues automating manual tasks and continually raising the bar to improve the customer experience.

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.

Were looking for a Engineering Manager to join our team and can based at our Annapolis Junction MD office location.

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Why AWS
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Associates degree or above or Cloud or GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner)
7 years of relevant handson systems engineering and administrative experience in networking storage systems operating systems
3 years of experience as the systems engineering and operations leader for an Internet service or leading edge IT organization operating in a 24x7 environment
Current active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

Demonstrated success building and leading teams
Strong systems engineering fundamentals (networking storage operating systems)
Development experience with a high level language like python ruby or java
Leading development life cycle processes and best practices esp. in the areas of deployment automation and monitoring
Mentoring/training systems engineers and systems development engineers
Experience with distributed systems at scale

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $142100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $245600/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.