Systems Development Engineer II, Kuiper Devices and Systems - Infrastructure

Amazon • Bellevue, WA

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About The Position

This Systems Development Engineer role focuses on supporting essential Leo shared software services and infrastructure across multiple business functions such a mechanical, printed circuit board, ASIC, and wiring. These functions require managing software services, lab environments, infrastructure both on-premise, including hyper-converged, and in AWS, and data all in support of satellite research and development. You'll design environments and manage both their physical and cloud infrastructure, which includes operating systems administration across Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows, used by the business critical design functions.

The position requires hands-on management of server deployments, system maintenance, and infrastructure improvements while ensuring consistent uptime for engineering teams. Working directly with stakeholders, you'll gather requirements, plan improvements, and implement changes through formal change control processes. Success in this role demands strict adherence to change management procedures to maintain system stability, including proper documentation, stakeholder approval, and scheduled maintenance windows. You'll balance urgent system needs with controlled changes while maintaining both cloud and physical environments supporting satellite development operations.

Requirements

• 3+ years of Linux systems administration experience
• 5+ years of automation scripting using Python, Bash, Shell and/or Perl experience
• 3+ year automating, deploying, and supporting distributed software services and related infrastructure in support of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) principles and practices (Infrastructure as Code, desired state config, pipelines, etc.).
• 3+ years experience designing and implementing software/systems solutions in a collaborative approach with peers and stakeholders.
• 3+ experience leading technical initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and cross-functional dependencies.
• 3+ years of systems engineering experience managing services and related infrastructure on-premise and cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)

Nice To Haves

• Experience with virtualization (Hypervisors, VMware, Xen), or experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications and experience in networking administration and troubleshooting
• 3+ years of database administration experience
• 1+ years of experience administrating and developing Hexagon EAM.
• 1+ years of Java applet development.
• 3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Golang, Ruby experience"
• Experience with Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (e.g. EC2, VPC, NAT Gateway, Privatlinks, EBS, etc.).
• 3+ years managing large scale distributed production infrastructure with 100s of users.

Responsibilities

• Server Administration - Customizing, deploying, and administrating Linux and/or Windows physical and virtualized servers in hybrid environments.
• Cloud Engineering - Designing, deploying, and maintaining services and their environments on one or more major cloud service providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
• Network Administration - Deploying and managing networking resources in support of both cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
• Service Operations - Ensuring required service levels are maintained to customer specification via service and infrastructure instrumentation, monitoring, and reporting. Ensure support, change, and disaster recovery processes are established and followed.
• Solution Design - Working with internal partners and engineering peers on requirements and designing a respective solution in a disciplined and collaborative approach.
• Continuous Improvement - Evaluate current services and their implementation in cooperation with partners and peers to make improvements.
• Automation and Documentation - Create and maintain automation for routine and deterministic workflows along with authoring, contributing, and maintaining high quality documentation for all stages of a service’s life cycle.

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
• Education Level: No Education Listed