Amazon MGM Studios is seeking a Systems Development Engineer II to improve operational excellence and system reliability for our Studio in the Cloud (SITC) platform. SITC is transforming entertainment content creation by moving all major production and post-production workflows from traditional on-premises infrastructure to AWS cloud-based solutions. This initiative encompasses nine core workflows—Dailies, Editorial, VFX, Sound, Conform, Color, Mastering, QC/Delivery, and Remote Production—representing the complete content creation lifecycle from Original Camera Footage (OCF) ingestion through final delivery. In this role, you will work independently to make SITC systems more resilient, reliable, automated, and easier to operate. You will own your team's engineering and operational excellence, delivering solutions that reduce toil, eliminate risks, improve agility, and enable engineers to deliver products and features to customers with less effort, less cost, and better quality. You may focus on CI/CD automation for media workflow deployments, infrastructure optimization, observability and monitoring improvements, disaster recovery testing, performance tuning, or developer productivity tools that accelerate delivery. As a SysDE II, you will design and deliver technology solutions solving difficult business and technical problems, using appropriate combinations of software development, infrastructure automation, systems design, and process improvements. You will coach others on identifying and eliminating risk, especially risks to system resilience. You will participate in design reviews, operational readiness reviews, and post-incident analyses to identify contributing causes and deliver permanent fixes that prevent recurrence. Your work is mostly tactical, though you are beginning to participate in strategic planning processes like OP1 and OP2, ensuring appropriate investment in reliability and automation. This role requires solid technical skills spanning multiple domains including software development, infrastructure automation, cloud operations, and systems design. You will implement solutions for SITC systems that handle terabyte-scale media data, maintain responsive performance for creative workflows, operate across multiple AWS regions, and integrate with proprietary vendor systems like Avid, Adobe, and Blackmagic. Success requires writing high-quality automation and tooling, building robust operational processes, and ensuring systems support Amazon MGM Studios' production slate spanning 150+ titles annually without operational failures that impact creative teams.