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Job Location drjobs

Bellevue - USA

Yearly Salary drjobs

$ 116300 - 201200

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Project Kuiper is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast reliable internet to customers and communities around the world and weve designed the system with the capacity flexibility and performance to serve a wide range of customers from individual households to schools hospitals businesses government agencies and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control : This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. Citizen in order to comply with U.S. government-imposed requirements related to the nature of the work and/or where it will be performed.

This Systems Development Engineer role focuses on supporting essential Kuiper shared services and specific design and manufacturing functional domains like Printed Circuit Board and Application Specific Integrated Circuit design. These functions require managed software services lab environments infrastructure for their software and data all in support of satellite research and development. Youll design environments and manage both their physical and cloud infrastructure which includes operating systems administration across Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows used by the business critical design functions.

The position requires hands-on management of server deployments system maintenance and infrastructure improvements while ensuring consistent uptime for engineering teams. Working directly with stakeholders youll gather requirements plan improvements and implement changes through formal change control processes. Success in this role demands strict adherence to change management procedures to maintain system stability including proper documentation stakeholder approval and scheduled maintenance windows. Youll balance urgent system needs with controlled changes while maintaining both cloud and physical environments supporting satellite development operations.

Key job responsibilities
- Server Administration - Customizing deploying and administrating Linux and/or Windows physical and virtual servers in hybrid environments.
- Cloud Engineering - Designing deploying and maintaining services and their environments on one or more major cloud service providers.
- Network Administration - Deploying and managing networking resources in support of both cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
- Service Operations - Ensuring required service levels are maintained to customer specification via service and infrastructure instrumentation monitoring and reporting. Ensure support change and disaster recovery processes are established and followed.
- Solution Design - Working with internal partners and engineering peers on requirements and designing a respective solution in a disciplined and collaborative approach.
- Continuous Improvement - Evaluate current services and their implementation in cooperation with partners and peers to make improvements.
- Automation and Documentation - Create and maintain automation for routine and deterministic workflows along with authoring contributing and maintaining high quality documentation for all stages of a services life cycle.

A day in the life
Kuiper Devices & Systems is looking for experienced and dedicated team members to manage the administration maintenance and development of services and environments for various Kuiper design and manufacturing functions (e.g. Integrated Circuits Mechanical Parts Printed Circuit Board Machining ) and ServiceNow. The ideal candidate is innovative has great problem-solving skills and pride in service quality. You must be very comfortable working with internal partners cross-functionally in support of their business need. You approach activities with automation in mind and reserve manual execution to where automation is not an option.

About the team
Here at Amazon we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups reaching 40000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.
At Amazon our mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there we need exceptionally talented bright and driven people. Were dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

- 3 years experience administrating server grade operating systems across contemporary enterprise (RedHat Enterprise Linux SuSe) and community (Ubuntu Debian CentOS etc.) Linux distributions.
- 3 years experience administrating Microsofts Windows Server operating systems.
- 3 year automating deploying and supporting distributed software services and related infrastructure in support of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) principles and practices (Infrastructure as Code desired state config pipelines ..).
- 3 years programming with contemporary languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript Go Python Shell Perl Power Shell RUST Java Ruby etc.
- 3 years experience designing and implementing software/systems solutions in a collaborative approach with peers and stakeholders.

- 3 years of VMWare vSphere and ESXi administration experience.
- 3 years of Relational and/or non-relational database administration experience.
- 1 years of experience with one or more major cloud service providers.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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.

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