Productivity Tools Systems Engineer – AWS GovCloud

Amazon; Arlington, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Leo Productivity Engineering Application Services (ALPEAS) seeks a System Development Engineer to own deployment, administration, and automation of productivity tools in AWS GovCloud. You will build and operate Jama Connect and related tooling to support Leo's systems engineering workflows, ensuring scale, security, and reliability.

Responsibilities include designing IaC (CDK) for compute, storage, and databases; integrating Jama with Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket; enforcing least-privilege

Qualifications

• Experience automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust.
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes.
• Experience with Jama Connect or similar requirements management tools.
• Experience operating in AWS GovCloud or other regulated environments (ITAR, FedRAMP).
• Experience with Atlassian suite administration (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo).
• Experience with container orchestration (ECS, EKS, Docker).
• Experience with database administration (PostgreSQL, Aurora).

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, maintain, and scale Jama Connect infrastructure in AWS GovCloud, ensuring high availability, performance, and security compliance (ITAR/EAR).
• Design and implement CDK stacks for application infrastructure including compute (EC2/ECS), databases (RDS/Aurora), networking (VPC, PrivateLink, NLB), and storage.
• Build automation for user provisioning, access management, backups, patching, and monitoring. Develop integrations between Jama and other Kuiper tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, TestRail).
• Implement and maintain security controls compliant with ITAR and export control regulations. Manage access through least-privilege models.
• Build dashboards, alarms, and runbooks. Participate in on‑call rotation to ensure service reliability.
• Evaluate, pilot, and onboard new productivity tools to support Kuiper's engineering workflows. Drive user training and adoption.

Skills

Python

Golang

Java

C++

C#

Rust

Linux

CI/CD

Jama Connect

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Bamboo

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Aurora

Tools

Jama Connect

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Bamboo

AWS GovCloud

CDK

ECS

EKS

Docker

PostgreSQL

Aurora

Job description

Amazon Leo Productivity Engineering Application Services (ALPEAS) seeks a System Development Engineer to own deployment, administration, and automation of productivity tools in AWS GovCloud. You will build and operate Jama Connect and related tooling to support Leo's systems engineering workflows, ensuring scale, security, and reliability.

Responsibilities include designing IaC (CDK) for compute, storage, and databases; integrating Jama with Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket; enforcing least-privilege