Sr. System Development Engineer, AWS Cross Domain Services

Amazon.com • Herndon, VA

72d • $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. As a Systems Development Engineer on the AWS Cross Domain Services team, you will have the opportunity to leverage the latest cloud computing technologies, improve the availability of cross domain services to better serve U.S. Government agencies, and use your strong background in Linux, networking, and cloud services to raise our already high operational excellence bar. You will operate, automate, and troubleshoot complex systems in partnership with software developer peers, and be given opportunities to grow your automation skills and gain a deeper understanding of cloud computing design patterns. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. You will be able to measure your success by its visible impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of government services for our nation.

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 experience.
• 4+ years of experience with systems development deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment.
• 4+ years of experience with the designing or architecting of new and existing systems to include 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 that has been successfully delivered to customers.
• Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant software solutions in production.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Build on existing services and architectures.
• Create new automated solutions.

Benefits

• 401k
• health_insurance
• dental_insurance
• vision_insurance
• life_insurance
• disability_insurance
• paid_holidays
• tuition_reimbursement
• employee_stock_purchase_plan
• professional_development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees