System Development Engineer II, Systems Development (Miracle Team)

Do you like helping U.S. Intelligence Community agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems? Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping these groups understand application architectures and integration approaches, and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world leader in providing a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world!

Amazon is seeking multiple Systems Development Engineer(s) with the ability to develop/build software and/or services from the ground up and automate software development pipelines and workloads. A good candidate will have excellent Linux/Unix knowledge, including shell scripting, and a proficiency in at least one development language. They will be able to think at “Amazon scale” to solve problems in permanent, sustainable, and scalable ways. With an eye toward utilizing the best solution over the quickest solution.

AWS service teams rely on our tools to help ensure that the experiences of their customers are consistent across commercial and air-gapped AWS regions. The Systems Development Engineers on the team are responsible for designing, deploying automating and operating the systems where our software and services operate. This includes troubleshooting problems with systems and services, regular deployment of new versions of the systems and their subcomponents, deployment/system validation and testing, service monitoring, standing up new services/tools, etc.

The team(s) works with many different internal Software Development teams to drive improvement of the systems/services within the team's scope. It is important to be able to work collaboratively and independently to investigate and document issues and create solutions to solve them at scale.

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.

These position(s) require that the candidate(s) selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. The position further requires candidates to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Key job responsibilities
- Play a significant role in building new systems and solutions
- Drive an environment of continuous improvement and truly innovative efficiency
- Work cross-functionally with other teams to continually improve operational readiness and availability
- Anticipate bottlenecks, make trade-offs, and encourage risk-taking to maximize business benefit
- Evaluate and recommend new and emerging products and technologies
- Drive operation excellence in your organization.

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