Cloud Platform Engineer — Build & Automate Resilient AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 129,200 - 174,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Disability accommodations

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a System Development Engineer to help stand up a new AWS service.

You will design, deploy, monitor, and automate infrastructure to provide a highly available platform for workloads across government and internal teams. The role requires collaboration in a large-scale cloud environment and deep expertise in modern programming languages, systems engineering, and security clearances.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• 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
• 5+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands‑on systems engineering experience
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above

Responsibilities

• 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, typically for one week in every six. We work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant and address root causes to avoid repeat incidents.

Skills

C++/Java/Python

System design

Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree

CSSLP

Tools

PowerShell

Python

Java

Ruby

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a System Development Engineer to help stand up a new AWS service.

You will design, deploy, monitor, and automate infrastructure to provide a highly available platform for workloads across government and internal teams. The role requires collaboration in a large-scale cloud environment and deep expertise in modern programming languages, systems engineering, and security clearances.