Senior AWS Systems Engineer - IaC, Automation & Reliability

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 134,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior System Administrator to own and operate the AWS infrastructure for enterprise applications, including Jira/Confluence, with a focus on automation, IaC, and reliability.

You will apply AI-assisted development to accelerate tasks, set security and monitoring standards, and work with cross‑team stakeholders. A strong emphasis on operational excellence and mentoring is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience architecting and operating AWS workloads in production.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production systems.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across multi-layer stacks.
• Ability to mentor engineers and lead technical direction.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate the AWS infrastructure hosting enterprise workloads.
• Set standards for IaC, automation, security, reliability, and observability.
• Own patching, upgrades, health, capacity planning, and DR for critical infra.
• Write code and use AI-assisted development to automate tasks and improve reliability.
• Evaluate and select tools for automation, observability, and IaC.
• Establish monitoring, alerts, and incident management; participate in on‑call rotation.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity to meet security/compliance requirements.
• Represent the team and drive cross‑team adoption of shared standards.
• Mentor engineers and elevate organizational reliability capabilities.

Skills

AWS

IaC

Automation

Observability

On-call rotation

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Jira

Confluence

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Linux

Python

Go

AI tools

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior System Administrator to own and operate the AWS infrastructure for enterprise applications, including Jira/Confluence, with a focus on automation, IaC, and reliability.

You will apply AI-assisted development to accelerate tasks, set security and monitoring standards, and work with cross‑team stakeholders. A strong emphasis on operational excellence and mentoring is expected.