Amazon Systems Development Manager Crypto ADC 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

34792159

We are looking for a AWS Systems Development Manager to lead a team that will operate AWS Crypto and Identity services in isolated regions and support government customers operating in those regions. You'll be part of a truly innovative team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. You'll become an expert at platform diagnosis, response, measurement, and automation. You will design and build the operational scalability that sustains the platform's insane growth.This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and must be eligible for a TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after the clearance is gained, the selected maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and satisfy other security related requirements.Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will be able to take a defined project, break down the work to help define milestones, and feedback mechanisms. You identify when implementations are not highly available or have defects; you investigate systemic patterns. You resolve, mitigate, or escalate operational concerns in a timely manner.You are responsible for building a best-in-class engineering team that delivers excellent results, design and developing state-of-the-art approaches to solving complex and ambiguous problems, cultivate engineering and operational excellence through metrics and continuous learning, mentor and grow others to take on increasingly higher responsibilities, help raise the bar on technical excellence, communicate proficiently and concisely to different audiences.

- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics or relevant work experience
- 3 + years of experience as the systems engineering and operations leader/people manager for an Internet service or leading edge IT organization
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

- Demonstrated success building and leading teams
- Performance engineering and capacity planning background
- Systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Leading development life cycle processes and best practices, esp. in the areas of deployment automation and monitoring
- Mentoring/training systems engineers
- Communication skills, both written and verbal
- Deployment and usage of monitoring systems
- Leading software development organizations in a “DevOps” model
- Exposure with distributed systems at scale
- Forecasting and capacity planning systems
- Experience with Agile engineering practices (Kanban, continuous delivery, etc.)
- Using AWS on commercial or government a plus