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Posted date: Feb 22, 2025
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Location: Arlington, VA
Estimated salary: $158,750
Range: $116,300 - $201,200
Description
Do you like helping U.S. Intelligence Community agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems? Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping these groups understand application architectures and integration approaches, and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success?Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world leader in providing a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world!
Amazon is seeking multiple Systems Development Engineer(s) with the ability to develop/build software and/or services from the ground up and automate software development pipelines and workloads. A good candidate will have excellent Linux/Unix knowledge, including shell scripting, and a proficiency in at least one development language. They will be able to think at “Amazon scale” to solve problems in permanent, sustainable, and scalable ways. With an eye toward utilizing the best solution over the quickest solution.
AWS service teams rely on our tools to help ensure that the experiences of their customers are consistent across commercial and air-gapped AWS regions. The Systems Development Engineers on the team are responsible for designing, deploying automating and operating the systems where our software and services operate. This includes troubleshooting problems with systems and services, regular deployment of new versions of the systems and their subcomponents, deployment/system validation and testing, service monitoring, standing up new services/tools, etc.
The team(s) works with many different internal Software Development teams to drive improvement of the systems/services within the team's scope. It is important to be able to work collaboratively and independently to investigate and document issues and create solutions to solve them at scale.
If Arlington, VA (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 25,000 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.
These position(s) require that the candidate(s) selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate(s) 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
- Play a significant role in building new systems and solutions
- Drive an environment of continuous improvement and truly innovative efficiency
- Work cross-functionally with other teams to continually improve operational readiness and availability
- Anticipate bottlenecks, make trade-offs, and encourage risk-taking to maximize business benefit
- Evaluate and recommend new and emerging products and technologies
- Drive operation excellence in your organization.
A day in the life
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, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
About the team
ADC2S Vertical
The ADC2S team is responsible for maintaining commercial parity in air-gapped regions by responding to operational needs and deploying feature requests, including big-ticket items such as region build handover. Engineers are expected to work with a high degree of autonomy, build strong relationships with the service team counterparts, and leverage their technical depth and problem – solving ability to resolve difficult and ambiguous issues.
AWS Cutlass Team
The Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineering team is dedicated to building automated platforms and solutions to streamline the AWS build and deployment process in dedicated regions. Our vision is to fully automate and enable zero-touch AWS deployments thereby reducing the time it takes to deploy new features and freeing engineers to focus on building new services and capabilities.
Cutlass develops and operates service builders across Amazon use, improving their operational experience. We enable ticket notifications from airgapped regions and build platforms that put data in the right places for other tools to leverage, which all adds up to a reduction of toil and operational inconsistency from one region to another.
AWS Region Services (RS) Region Build
The AWS Region Build Team orchestrates the delivery of large, fast-paced software and hardware projects into AWS regions around the world to meet the growing demand for AWS services. Building these complex regions and the continuous service launch cycle requires exceptionally talented, focused, and driven people to align timelines with business needs, identify technical and resourcing risks, resolve multi-faceted conflicts, and to evolve best practices and operations. We are seeking an experienced manager to lead and drive a team of Technical Program Managers (TPMs) that will deliver AWS capabilities to our global customers.
Cross Domain Services (CDS) | Secure Connection Services (SCS)
Secure Connection Services' vision is to relentlessly reduce the data – to – decision timeline for our Public Sector customers by developing near – real – time secure connectivity, edge, and cryptographic capabilities enabling air, land, sea, and space missions. To achieve this vision, our strategy is to deliver a set of connectivity and edge capabilities to meet the diversified needs of our customers’ missions.
Messaging and Streams Team (MAST)
The Messaging and Streams Team (MAST) is responsible for operations and of the Messaging (SNS/SQS/AMQ) and Streaming (KDS/KDF/KDA/MSK) services in Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) and GovCloud regions.
Amazon Monitoring and Observability (AMO)
AMO Provides AWS CloudWatch services to our Isolated region customers for actionable visibility into the health of their applications and systems. Key features include web services for submission and retrieval of measurements, a console for presentation, and the ability to notify and automate based on results.
Simple Storage Solutions (S3G) – Unique Regions Engineering
We are focused on the day-to-day operations and long – term health of S3 within ADC partitions. This includes feature launches and feature parity with commercial, ultimately supporting all of S3's
pipelines. We evangelize automation solutions whenever possible, delivering on S3's goal to eliminate all repetitive manual operations.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience- 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
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above
Extended Qualifications
- 9+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, 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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t 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 $116,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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