Automation Engineer — EC2 Control-Plane in Air-Gapped Environments

Amazon Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) AIS is building automated platforms to streamline deployments in air-gapped environments. You will own EC2 control-plane services end-to-end, enhance monitoring, and automate operational tasks with cutting-edge tools.

Join a dedicated team that collaborates across AWS service groups, embraces AI-enabled automation, and helps scale infrastructure while maintaining security and reliability. TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required or sponsorship provided on start.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale cloud services.
• Ability to work across teams to deliver end-to-end infrastructure solutions.
• Strong monitoring, security, and reliability mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate EC2 control-plane services, fleet health automation, and capacity tooling across air-gapped environments.
• Own features end to end, write design, implement, test, deploy through pipelines, and operate in production including on-call.
• Improve monitoring and deployment safety, drive fixes for operational gaps.
• Collaborate with partner teams across air-gapped partitions to deliver shared infrastructure.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Leverage AI tools to improve automation, code quality, and productivity.

Skills

EC2 control-plane

Automation tooling

Monitoring and alerting

On-call production support

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Python scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Generative AI tools

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) AIS is building automated platforms to streamline deployments in air-gapped environments. You will own EC2 control-plane services end-to-end, enhance monitoring, and automate operational tasks with cutting-edge tools.

Join a dedicated team that collaborates across AWS service groups, embraces AI-enabled automation, and helps scale infrastructure while maintaining security and reliability. TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required or sponsorship provided on start.