Systems Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Are you a Systems Development Engineer who cares deeply about quality and performance? Are you known as someone who drive excellence in your teams? Do you like to innovate with new solutions to problems? Do you want to help the build the world's premier cloud environment?

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 understand service architectures and have a knack for improving them and making them robust? Are you the type of person that works with all teams to make operations a better place through automation and building tools? Then this is the job for you.

We are seeking a talented and highly motivated Systems Development Engineer. The responsibilities include contributing to development of infrastructure foundational services, writing tools and services to increase automation for deployment and releases, building and maintaining test fleets, performing functional and regression testing on new software builds, defining and performing stress/capacity testing, and managing/monitoring production software deployments. We are looking for someone who understands services and architectures and see ways that they can improve. We are looking someone who digs in and solves the root problem with automated solutions.

The Infrastructure Team, within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure group, supports fleet-wide telemetry and software tools for the server platform for our innovative web service and e-commerce technology platforms. This platform is industry-leading in terms of frugality and operational excellence, and is critical to the success of the AWS business and the thousands of customers who use utility computing today.

* This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and must currently possess an active Top Secret security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and satisfy other security related requirements.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar, or equivalent experience
· 4+ years experience with a UNIX/Linux operating system
· 3+ years programming/scripting experience (e.g. Python, Perl, Ruby, C, Java)
· All interested candidates must be willing to work on-call.
· Employment for all candidates is contingent upon pass a background check.
* This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and must currently possess an active Top Secret security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and satisfy other security related requirements.