Systems Development Engineer II, AWS Mission Networking Edge Connectivity

Amazon • Herndon, VA

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About The Position

AWS Mission Edge Connectivity service enables AWS Cloud connectivity options for
US Intelligence and Department of Defense customers. These connectivity options
allow our customer to deploy and run their isolated, sensitive workloads in an
environment exclusive for their use-case. We help our customers to onboard,
manage, and scale their connectivity options for maintaining persistent
connection to AWS Isolated cloud

AWS Mission Networking Edge Connectivity is seeking a Systems Development
Engineer II to design and implement systems that ensure operational excellence,
reliability, and scalability of mission-critical network services for US
government customers.

In this role, you will design and implement systems that ensure operational
excellence, reliability, and scalability of the AWS Mission Networking service
infrastructure. You'll develop automation frameworks and tools that enable
efficient service deployment, monitoring, and management across multiple regions
and availability zones. Your expertise in systems integration, DevOps practices,
and site reliability engineering will directly impact how AWS delivers
mission-critical network services to government customers.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect resilient systems,
automate operational workflows, and establish best practices for service
reliability. By building sophisticated automation and monitoring systems, you'll
ensure that critical customer connections maintain the highest standards of
availability and performance. Your work will span infrastructure provisioning,
deployment automation, operational tooling, and service observability.

If Arlington HQ (HQ2):

This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon
will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy
efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our
employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated
investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public
transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.

By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one
innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the
challenge? Come build the future with us.

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.

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Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
• 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• 6+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
• Experience building services using AWS products
• Experience utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a DevOps environment

Responsibilities

• Design and implement systems automation, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment pipelines for AWS Mission Networking services across multiple regions
• Build operational tooling and monitoring systems that enable efficient service management, troubleshooting, and incident response
• Architect and develop site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, including runbooks, alerting strategies, and automated remediation systems
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to integrate AWS Mission Networking systems with AWS infrastructure, third-party solutions, and government customer environments
• Establish and maintain operational standards for service availability, performance, and security; drive continuous improvement through metrics and data analysis
• Mentor teammates on systems engineering best practices, operational excellence, and automation techniques
• Participate in on call rotation in support of our services, providing technical leadership during incidents

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: Mid Level