Systems Development Manager, Security Tooling, US ADC Security

AWS Security is looking for a Systems Development Manager to lead a team of systems development engineers who run the infrastructure and automation behind security tooling for a U.S. Government program in a classified environment. Your team will keep these systems secure available and scalable and will automate operations so the security organization can move faster.

You will own your teams infrastructure and operations roadmap including infrastructure as code deployment pipelines monitoring and system health. Youll work with software development security engineering program management and Government counterparts to set priorities and deliver results. You will hire and develop strong engineers and build a culture of ownership operational excellence and continuous improvement.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead hire and develop a team of systems development engineers and set clear goals and performance expectations.
- Own the infrastructure and operations roadmap for security tooling from design through deployment and sustainment.
- Drive automation of infrastructure as code configuration management and deployment to reduce manual operational work.
- Set operational excellence standards including availability and health metrics monitoring alerting and on-call health.
- Partner with software development security engineering TPM and Government stakeholders to prioritize work and remove blockers.
- Report operational performance risks and results clearly to senior leadership.

A day in the life
You start by reviewing overnight availability and health metrics with your team then help an engineer through an infrastructure issue thats blocking a deployment. Mid-morning you lead a design review for an automation change that will remove a manual maintenance task and push the team to make it simpler and more reliable. You meet with the software development manager to line up infrastructure work with upcoming tooling the afternoon you coach an engineer one-on-one interview a candidate and brief leadership on operational risk. Your team keeps critical security systems running on a classified program.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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- Bachelors degree or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- Experience in automating deploying and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience with infrastructure as code ops automation and configuration management tools such as Chef Puppet or Ansible
- Current active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI.

- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience operating security tooling or security infrastructure.
- Experience leading engineering teams in classified or regulated environments.

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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 Herndon - 166300.00 - 225000.00 USD annually