Sr. Systems Development Engineer , US Amazon Dedicated Cloud Security

About the role

AWS Security is seeking a seasoned Senior Systems Development Engineer to join our team building next-generation infrastructure solutions for Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC). ADC extends the full power of AWS cloud infrastructure to customers, countries, and organizations with the most stringent security, compliance, and data sovereignty requirements — including government, defense, and regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deliver, and operate large-scale infrastructure automation and deployment pipelines for ADC environments with a focus on security, availability, and repeatability, observability, and fault tolerance
• Drive technical design reviews and alignment across multiple engineering and operations teams
• Define and champion systems engineering standards, tooling, and best practices across the organization
• Proactively identify and resolve systemic infrastructure risks before they become customer-impacting issues
• Mentor and develop junior and mid-level engineers, accelerating their growth and technical effectiveness
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers, helping them understand ADC capabilities, constraints, and best practices
• Engage directly with customer technical teams to gather requirements, troubleshoot issues, and deliver solutions that meet their operational and compliance needs
• Translate complex customer requirements — including security, sovereignty, and regulatory mandates — into actionable infrastructure designs and implementation plans
• Lead and participate in customer-facing technical reviews, briefings, and working sessions, communicating clearly to both technical and executive audiences
• Act as a customer advocate within AWS, surfacing feedback and emerging needs to product and engineering teams to drive roadmap prioritization
• Support customers during critical operational events, providing hands-on technical guidance and coordinating cross-team response efforts when needed
• Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with customer stakeholders, ensuring long-term satisfaction and confidence in ADC solutions

Qualifications

• 6+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience with infrastructure as code, ops automation, and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
• Current, active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance