Amazon Systems Development Engineer AWS ADC Region Services 

United States, Kansas 

400697139

You will interact directly with AWS customers to understand how to best meet their needs, build solutions that allow our public facing products to operate, and directly contribute to designing and building cutting-edge distributed systems with visible impact on the efficiency and effectiveness AWS services.You'll be part of a world-class 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 smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. You will be able to measure your success by its visible impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of our services.
The position requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.Key job responsibilities
We seek to simplify the experience of sharing data using AWS when compliance, security, or distrust preclude conventional sharing options. In this role, as part of an agile team, you will design, build, and launch new AWS products and services that help customers securely exchange data.As a System Development Engineer on the AWS ADC teams, you will:
Design systems that ensure all parts of the service operate effectively with each other.
Identify opportunities for optimization to make the service more efficient and cost effective.Collaborate with peers to evaluate requirements and technologies that close the gap between customer needs and service functionality.This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance or higher. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.A day in the lifeThis role will sit in our new office space in Annapolis Junction, MD.

- 3+ 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
- 5+ 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)
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

- Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java
- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology