Systems Development Engineer II, AWS Edge Connectivity

We help our customers to onboard manage and scale their connectivity options for maintaining persistent connection to the AWS Isolated cloud.

AWS Edge Connectivity is seeking a Systems Development Engineer II to design and implement systems that ensure operational excellence reliability and scalability of mission-critical network services for US government customers.

In this role you will design and implement systems that ensure operational excellence reliability and scalability of the AWS Edge Connectivity service infrastructure. Youll develop automation frameworks and tools that enable efficient service deployment monitoring and management across multiple regions and availability zones. Your expertise in systems integration DevOps practices and site reliability engineering will directly impact how AWS delivers mission-critical network services to government customers.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect resilient systems automate operational workflows and establish best practices for service reliability. By building sophisticated automation and monitoring systems youll ensure that critical customer connections maintain the highest standards of availability and performance. Your work will span infrastructure provisioning deployment automation operational tooling and service observability.

If Arlington HQ (HQ2):

This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space and create at least 25000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates public transportation improvements and new access to Reagan National Airport.

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 be a US Citizen and 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
- Design and implement systems automation infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines for AWS Edge Connectivity services across multiple regions
- Build operational tooling and monitoring systems that enable efficient service management troubleshooting and incident response
- Architect and develop site reliability engineering (SRE) practices including runbooks alerting strategies and automated remediation systems
- Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to integrate AWS Edge Connectivity systems with AWS infrastructure third-party solutions and government customer environments
- Establish and maintain operational standards for service availability performance and security; drive continuous improvement through metrics and data analysis
- Mentor teammates on systems engineering best practices operational excellence and automation techniques
- Participate in on call rotation in support of our services providing technical leadership during incidents

A day in the life
Our team follows an Agile development methodology with a strong emphasis on operational excellence. Team members participate in daily stand-ups and biweekly sprint planning sessions focused on automation infrastructure improvements and reliability initiatives. We conduct weekly reviews of operational metrics and reliability targets to align systems engineering efforts with organizational goals.

Systems Development Engineers Program Management (PM) teams and Single-Threaded Owners (STOs) collaborate to define and execute infrastructure and automation projects. Each engineer serves as on-call support approximately between four to eight weeks per year to maintain our service availability targets and respond to operational incidents.

About the team
Why AWS

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough but kind code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Diverse Experiences

AWS 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 AWS

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- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3 years of administrative experience in networking storage systems operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- 2 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 TS/SCI with Polygraph

- Bachelors degree or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- 6 years of administrative experience in networking storage systems operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- Experience building services using AWS products
- Experience utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a DevOps environment

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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at VA Arlington - 129200.00 - 174800.00 USD annually
USA VA Herndon - 129200.00 - 174800.00 USD annually