Systems Development Engineer II, AWS Edge Connectivity Services

About the role

AWS Edge Connectivity Services 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. In this role, you will design and implement systems that ensure operational excellence, reliability, and scalability of the AWS Edge Connectivity service infrastructure. You'll develop automation frameworks and tools that enable efficient service deployment, monitoring, and management across multiple regions and availability zones. Your expertise in systems integration, DevOps practices, and site reliability engineering will directly impact how AWS delivers mission-critical network services to government customers. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect resilient systems, automate operational workflows, and establish best practices for service reliability. By building sophisticated automation and monitoring systems, you'll ensure that critical customer connections maintain the highest standards of availability and performance. Your work will span infrastructure provisioning, deployment automation, operational tooling, and service observability.

Key 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
• Architect 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

About The Team

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

Basic qualifications

• 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

Preferred 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
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

Pay

USA, VA, Arlington – $129,200.00 – $174,800.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Herndon – $129,200.00 – $174,800.00 USD annually