Systems Development Engineer, Keya

The Keya team is looking for a Systems Development Engineer. The Keya team works with and supports the services and tools which support AWS User Experience Products and Platforms (UXP2) Documentation and SDKs. As a member of this team you will be exposed to most AWS services and technologies. Our System Development Engineers work in a fast-paced environment with our multi-disciplined service teams to deliver services to our customers. Keya team members own the scaling and management of services across AWS regions supporting the US Government.

A Keya System Development Engineer will:
- Work with other engineers to build and manage massively scaled services
- Automate common tasks and processes
- Work with other engineers to diagnose and resolve customer issues
- Track the health of our services identify and fix problems on complex systems with massive scale
- Collaborate with some of the leading minds in distributed systems

The candidate should be familiar with Linux including the following:
- Various distros and their corresponding package management tools
- Permissions and permissions management
- File System partitioning formatting and mounting
- Log parsing using grep awk sed cut tr etc
- Remote access via ssh
- Proc file system
- Network tools (ip ifconfig netstat tcpdump strace netcat ping telnet etc
- System Monitoring Tools (top *stat tools etc)
- DNS and tools (bind host dig nslookup etc)
- Runlevel management tools (systemd rc.d inittab chkconfig etc)

This position can consider candidates for the Arlington VA Columbia MD or Denver CO locations.

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.

For more information reach out to Christine Price at

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- 2 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 1 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3 years of administrative experience in networking storage systems operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- Bachelors degree or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking storage operating systems)
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby

- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology

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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 job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.