Automation & Infra Engineer II - Security

Amazon; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Security in Herndon, VA seeks a Systems Development Engineer II to design and operate the automation and infrastructure that keep Amazon and AWS sites physically secure.

You will build deployment pipelines, fleet automation, monitoring, and tooling for a global access-control system with minimal manual toil.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, scalable IaC, and collaboration with software, security, and ops teams.

Qualifications

• Experience automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure.
• Experience programming with Python and at least one modern language.
• Experience with Linux/Unix and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate automation, tooling, and CI/CD pipelines that deploy Optics access control services safely across every AWS region.
• Own the operational excellence of production systems: define monitoring, alarming, and runbooks; drive down manual toil and MTTR.

Skills

Automation experience

Python

Linux/Unix

CI/CD

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Job description

Amazon Security in Herndon, VA seeks a Systems Development Engineer II to design and operate the automation and infrastructure that keep Amazon and AWS sites physically secure.

You will build deployment pipelines, fleet automation, monitoring, and tooling for a global access-control system with minimal manual toil.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, scalable IaC, and collaboration with software, security, and ops teams.