System Development Engineer

About the Role

This position is focused on compliance and governance solutions through AWS CloudTrail and customer experience, through AWS Service Quotas. A successful Systems Development Engineer joining the team will be an innovator, building solutions and working closely with Amazon's largest and most demanding government customers to address their specific needs across a suite of Cloud Computing and Governance environments. They will drive the resolution of technical issues and work diligently to improve the customer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, monitor, and automate infrastructure, tools and systems to provide highly-available and resilient platforms for customer and team workloads.
• Implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve complex technical problems.
• Engineer and operate cloud computing infrastructure.
• Help U.S. Government agencies utilize innovative cloud computing solutions.
• Build and operate some of the largest and most complex distributed systems.
• Implement, operate, and enhance complex distributed systems.
• Simplify solutions to complex problems while ensuring the best customer experience.
• Deep-dive into operational issues, lead technical post-mortem analysis and discussions to identify root causes and corrective actions of complex issues.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Solid foundation in Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Deep, hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting Linux-based systems, ideally within large-scale, distributed environments.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and how servers and network infrastructure interact.
• Demonstrated expertise in system design and architecture.
• Extensive hands-on experience building and operating production systems.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby.
• Experience with tools for automation (building, testing, releasing or monitoring).
• AWS CloudTrail
• AWS Service Quotas

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or above, or CND (Certified Network Defender) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials).
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above.
• After start, the selected candidate must obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.
• Knowledge of and proficiency in the use of Python scripting language (preferred).
• Experience on highly concurrent, high throughput systems and knowledge of complex distributed systems (preferred).