Automation Architect: Windows Infra & Cloud Pipelines

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in the Seattle/Bellevue area seeks a Systems Development Engineer to own the design and implementation of automation for Windows infrastructure. You will build Ansible frameworks, AWS pipelines, and operational tooling to eliminate manual processes and scale services.

You will craft reusable patterns for infrastructure as code, deploy CI/CD using CDK, and establish monitoring with CloudWatch. You’ll participate in on‑call rotations, fix incidents, and help raise the engineering bar.

Qualifications

• 2+ 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.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
• Cloud+ or GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner), or Associate's degree or above
• 5+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
• Experience with infrastructure as code, ops automation, and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
• Working familiarity with Windows Server infrastructure: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy

Responsibilities

• Own automation architecture: Design and implement the Ansible automation framework (roles, collections, inventories, execution patterns) that manages Core Services infrastructure at scale
• Build delivery pipelines: Develop and maintain AWS CI/CD pipelines (CDK, CodePipeline, CodeBuild) that deliver infrastructure changes through tested, repeatable deployments
• Instrument and monitor: Build CloudWatch-based observability — dashboards, alarms, and metrics — that provide proactive visibility into service health across isolated environments
• Operate and support: Maintain production Windows infrastructure services (AD, DNS, DHCP, DFS, ECM, Group Policy); participate in on-call rotation and provide escalation support
• Eliminate manual operations: Identify, prioritize, and migrate manual runbook processes to code-defined, version-controlled automation
• Establish engineering standards: Define patterns for infrastructure-as-code, testing, code

Skills

Programming languages

Automation experience

Windows infrastructure

Infrastructure as code

Security clearance prep

Education

Bachelor's degree or above

Associate's degree or above

Tools

Ansible

AWS CDK

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CloudWatch

Job description

Amazon in the Seattle/Bellevue area seeks a Systems Development Engineer to own the design and implementation of automation for Windows infrastructure. You will build Ansible frameworks, AWS pipelines, and operational tooling to eliminate manual processes and scale services.

You will craft reusable patterns for infrastructure as code, deploy CI/CD using CDK, and establish monitoring with CloudWatch. You’ll participate in on‑call rotations, fix incidents, and help raise the engineering bar.