ADC Engineer, Aurora Storage and Platform (RDS)

Amazon; Denver, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Denver, CO is seeking an ADC Engineer for Aurora Storage and Platform (RDS). You will build, deploy, and monitor AWS Relational and Aurora services, ensuring high availability and reliability for AWS customers.

This role requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and a strong Linux/automation background, on-call responsibilities, and a passion for solving complex operational problems in a premier cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI security clearance; polygraph or commensurate clearance required.
• Experience building and operating AWS infrastructure in large-scale environments.
• Strong Linux and automation background with focus on reliability.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and monitor AWS Relational and Aurora services within ADC regions.
• Design, deploy, monitor and automate infrastructure to provide a highly-available and resilient platform.
• This position involves on-call responsibilities.

Skills

Linux

Automation

Troubleshooting

On-call experience

Security clearance

Tools

AWS

AWS Aurora

CloudFormation

Job description

ADC Engineer, Aurora Storage and Platform (RDS)

Job ID: 10526559 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Application deadline: Sep 7, 2026

This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's world class Non-Relational and Emerging Database focused technical team in Denver, CO. You will be working with some of the best and brightest engineers and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.

A successful engineer joining the team will do much more than write code and triage problems. You will work with Amazon's largest and most demanding customers to address specific needs across a full suite of services. You will dive deep into technical issues and work diligently to improve the customer experience. By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time.

We are seeking highly motivated engineers who are focused on operational excellence and troubleshooting complex system operations, have a good understanding of Linux and automation. We need engineers who understand how to both think big and simplify solutions to complex problems; all the while ensuring that our customers continue to have the best experience possible.

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. 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.

Key job responsibilities

• Build, deploy and monitor AWS Relational and Aurora and Services within Amazon Dedicate Cloud (ADC) regions.
• Design, deploy, monitor and automate infrastructure, tools and systems to provide a highly-available and resilient platform for our customers' and our team's workloads.
• This position involves on-call responsibilities,

A day in the life

On a \"typical\" day, our engineers may dive deep to find the root cause of a customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending in the wrong direction, launch a new service or feature, or discuss radical new approaches to automate operational processes. As a member of our team you will join a dedicated group of engineers who provide troubleshooting and operations support, and innovate to automate operational tasks.

About the team

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS)

AWS Infrastructure Services 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.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.

Work/Life Harmony

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-adv