SysDev Engineer II

Key job responsibilities

• Fleet Management: Oversee the lifecycle of all Linux client systems, including provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, and retirement.
• Security & Compliance: Implement and maintain controls to ensure systems meet rigorous internal and external security requirements (e.g., NIST, FedRAMP, ITAR compliance). Drive initiatives to keep the fleet within defined patches and configuration baselines.
• Tooling & Automation: Develop and improve automation for imaging, software distribution, monitoring, and policy enforcement. Utilize tools like MaaS, Ansible, Puppet, or Tanium for scalable fleet operations.
• Printer Management for Manufacturing: Launch and maintain printers that support SAP-driven manufacturing processes, ensuring seamless integration with Linux endpoints on the manufacturing floor.
• Operational Excellence: Define metrics and dashboards to monitor fleet health, compliance, and performance. Drive initiatives to reduce mean time to repair (MTTR) and increase fleet stability.
• Collaboration: Partner closely with Security, Networking, Manufacturing, and Application teams to support specialized workloads and deploy solutions tailored to Kuiper’s unique environments.
• Process Leadership: Build and document processes for hardware lifecycle management, software approvals, printer onboarding, and user support related to Linux systems.

About the team

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
• Proficiency in Linux management (RHEL, Ubuntu, etc) in Enterprise or Manufacturing Organizations.
• Proficiency in Linux management (RHEL, Ubuntu, etc) in Enterprise or Manufacturing Organizations.
• Proficiency in VMware in Enterprise or Manufacturing Organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java
• Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (NIST, STIG, FedRAMP) and their application to endpoint environments.