Air-Gapped Systems Security Engineer

Amazon.com Services LLC; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Systems Security Development Engineer to design, build, and integrate security automation for a U.S. Government program delivering a classified AI Factory on a fully air-gapped platform.

You will engineer the systems that harden and automate security controls across a multi-vendor stack (Kubernetes, ONTAP, NVIDIA, Cisco, Thales) and work with infrastructure engineers from day one to ensure security is built in from the start.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems).
• 3+ years of systems engineering experience.
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance required.
• Hands-on Linux administration, automation (Ansible, Terraform), and scripting (Python, Bash).
• Experience integrating security tooling into infrastructure (SIEM, endpoint, vulnerability scanning).
• Understanding of Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and infrastructure-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Engineer security automation for platform hardening, STIG application, and configuration enforcement.
• Build and maintain log pipelines and telemetry collection for the air-gapped SIEM.
• Integrate security tooling (endpoint protection, vulnerability scanning, detection) into the platform stack.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code for security components.
• Support security control implementation and evidence generation for RMF authorization.
• Partner with platform engineering to integrate identity, secrets management, and crypto services.

Skills

Systems engineering

Linux administration

Automation

Scripting

Kubernetes

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Python

Bash

Kubernetes

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Systems Security Development Engineer to design, build, and integrate security automation for a U.S. Government program delivering a classified AI Factory on a fully air-gapped platform.

You will engineer the systems that harden and automate security controls across a multi-vendor stack (Kubernetes, ONTAP, NVIDIA, Cisco, Thales) and work with infrastructure engineers from day one to ensure security is built in from the start.