Systems Development Engineer II, AWS Edge Connectivity

About the role

We help our customers to onboard, manage, and scale their connectivity options for maintaining persistent connection to the AWS Isolated cloud. AWS 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement systems automation, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment pipelines for AWS Edge Connectivity services across multiple regions
• Build operational tooling and monitoring systems that enable efficient service management, troubleshooting, and incident response
• Arcitect and develop site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, including runbooks, alerting strategies, and automated remediation systems
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to integrate AWS Edge Connectivity systems with AWS infrastructure, third-party solutions, and government customer environments
• Establish and maintain operational standards for service availability, performance, and security; drive continuous improvement through metrics and data analysis
• Mentor teammates on systems engineering best practices, operational excellence, and automation techniques
• Participate in on call rotation in support of our services, providing technical leadership during incidents

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
• 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• 6+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
• Experience building services using AWS products
• Experience utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a DevOps environment

Skills

• Systems Integration
• DevOps Practices
• Site Reliability Engineering

Benefits

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Pay

$129,200.00 - $174,800.00 USD annually

Schedule

Full-time