Sr. System Development Engineer, AWS Cross Domain Services

Amazon • Herndon, VA

73d • $136,100 - $235,200

About The Position

The AWS Cross Domain Services team is seeking a Systems Development Engineer who is passionate about operational excellence. This engineer will help to operate and scale the services that connect AWS regions of differing security requirements. An Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) is a collection of AWS regions provided for a customer with specific security requirements. The AWS Cross Domain Services team provides solutions for customers to move data between regions with differing security requirements. We are obsessed with earning and maintaining customer trust. AWS is building some of the largest and most complex distributed systems in the world and the AWS Cross Domain Services team is essential to AWS’s dedicated cloud expansion. We need talented, adaptable engineers to help us implement and operate these complex systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional).
• 5+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby.
• 4+ years of experience with systems development deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment.
• 4+ years of experience with designing or architecting new and existing systems including software development, operations, automation, and process improvement.
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle.
• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure successfully delivered to customers.
• Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant software solutions in production.

Responsibilities

• Leverage the latest cloud computing technologies.
• Improve the availability of cross domain services to better serve U.S. Government agencies.
• Use strong background in Linux, networking, and cloud services to raise operational excellence.
• Operate, automate, and troubleshoot complex systems in partnership with software developer peers.
• Grow automation skills and gain a deeper understanding of cloud computing design patterns.
• Shape the development of infrastructure foundational services.
• Write tools and services to improve automation for deployment and releases.
• Build and maintain test fleets.
• Perform functional and regression testing on software.
• Define and perform stress testing.
• Monitor production software.

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree