Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Technology

SystemsDevelopmentEngineerII

$129–175k Arlington, Virginia, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Systems Development Engineer II at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Systems development, Network services, Automation frameworks, Site reliability engineering. Design systems automation. Implement systems automation”

What You'll Achieve.

Ensure operational excellence; Ensure reliability; Ensure scalability; Maintain persistent connection; Maintain highest standards availability; Maintain highest standards performance

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

US Citizen, TS/SCI with Polygraph, Opt into clearance, On call rotation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years software development experience, 3+ years networking, storage, OS experience, 2+ years systems design/architecture, Experience programming modern language, TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance

Nice to Have

Bachelor's degree, CSSLP certification, 6+ years systems engineering experience, Experience building AWS services, Experience with AWS cloud DevOps

What You'll Do.

Design systems automation

Implement systems automation

Design infrastructure-as-code

Implement infrastructure-as-code

Design deployment pipelines

Implement deployment pipelines

Build operational tooling

Build monitoring systems

Enable service management

Enable troubleshooting

Enable incident response

Architect SRE practices

Develop SRE practices

Integrate AWS Mission Networking systems

Establish operational standards

Maintain operational standards

Drive continuous improvement

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Agile development methodology; Daily stand-ups; Sprint planning sessions; Weekly reviews

Communication Scope

Technical leadership

Process & Methodology

Agile, Scrum

Full Job Description

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

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