System Development Manager, US Amazon Dedicated Cloud Security

Amazon • Herndon, VA

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About The Position

The US ADC Security Engineering team is looking for a System Development Manager
to support Operations in Herndon, VA.

The AWS US ADC Security Engineering team builds and provides operational support
for internal tools used by Security Engineers across the Amazon Dedicated Cloud
(ADC) space. Our Systems Development Managers work in a fast-paced environment
across many disciplines, collaborating with other AWS teams to deliver services
for our customers.

You will be passionate about both development and operations, and have a strong
desire to learn about Amazon's development lifecycle. This is a true DevOps
role; you will be both allowed and expected to follow problems all the way to
the end and work on implementing real solutions, not just quick fixes. You will
want to dive deep and understand how these large systems work.

If you like to focus on customer experience, are passionate about Security, and
act globally and want to contribute to the operational excellence of Amazon and
our ADC Spaces, we’d like to meet you!

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

You will bring a detail-oriented approach and excellent problem-solving
abilities, backed by a deep understanding of distributed system design and
delivery. Your contributions will leverage cross-functional business and
technical skills, assessing and managing risks, measuring and reporting on
progress, anticipating and resolving bottlenecks, providing escalation
management, making tradeoffs, and balancing business needs with technical
constraints.

You will drive engineering deliverables through influence rather than authority,
manage repair requests in a high-volume environment, and respond to
high-severity events. Regular presentations to senior leadership will require
you to synthesize problems and solutions into a simple and consumable manner.
Additionally, you will be responsible for data collection, analytics, and
dashboard creation to help others identify the best paths for business
improvement.

The ADC Security Engineering team supports the ADC Security Organization and its
customers through the development and maintenance of specialized tooling. The
team focuses on creating robust, efficient, and innovative solutions that
enhance security measures and streamline processes within the organization. The
ADC Security Engineering team continuously improves and expands our toolkit to
address evolving security challenges to meet the diverse needs of our
stakeholders. The tools we develop empower the broader ADC Security Organization
to effectively protect assets, mitigate risks, and ensure compliance across
various security domains.

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering
delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating
and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and
services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate
their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas
including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and
physical stores.

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI
events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace
our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we
seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

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, training, and
other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded
professional.

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the
expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements
are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home,
there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• 5+ years of managing system or software development teams experience
• 7+ years of relevant hands-on systems engineering and administrative work in networking, storage systems, operating systems experience
• 7+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Current, active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance with polygraph
• The candidate should be familiar with Linux, including the following: - Various distros and their corresponding package management tools - Permissions and permissions management - System logging and auditing - Log parsing using grep, awk, sed, cut, tr, etc - Remote access via ssh - Knowledge of procfs & sysfs - Linux tools (ip, ifconfig, netstat, tcpdump, strace, netcat, ping, telnet, etc) - System Monitoring Tools (top, stat tools, etc) - DNS and tools (bind, host, dig, nslookup, etc) - Runlevel management tools (systemd, rc.d, inittab, chkconfig, etc)
• The candidate should also be familiar with generic development tools and best practices: - Git (or other CM tools) - Agile development - CI/CD or development pipelines

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
• Experience with AWS platforms, services, and design patterns
• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy operational tools to automate processes and reduce operational overhead
• Hire, Develop, and Mentor team members.
• Work with other engineers to build and manage massively scaled services
• Work with other engineers to diagnose and resolve customer issues
• Track the health of our services, identify and fix problems on complex systems with massive scale
• Collaborate with some of the leading minds in distributed systems
• Participating in 24/7 on-call rotation to troubleshoot high severity issues

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager