Systems Development Engineer II, AWS Cross Domain Services (CDS)

Amazon • Herndon, VA

5d • $129,200 - $174,800 • Onsite

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. You'll be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. 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. This position requires that the candidate selected must be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. The position further requires the candidate to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Requirements

• 4+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
• US Citizen

Nice To Haves

• CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• Bachelor's degree
• 6+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Experience utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a DevOps environment

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
• Dive deep into issues and reinvent systems, processes, and tools as needed to drive continuous improvement for our customers
• Deep dive to root cause a customer issue
• Investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way
• Consult with the top engineers at Amazon
• Discuss radical new approaches to automate operational 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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree