Systems Automation Engineer - AWS Disaster Recovery

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Boston (MA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is seeking a Systems Development Engineer to build automation, tooling and operational infrastructure for reliable, secure, and efficient replication and recovery. You will treat operations as a software problem and work across Linux, Windows, x86_64 and ARM64 environments.

Responsibilities include automating provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, cross‑platform tooling, monitoring, scalability, and security collaboration with teams to reduce toil and improve runbooks

Qualifications

• Experience in 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

Responsibilities

• Operational automation: Design and build software that automates infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and recurring operational workflows, reducing manual effort and on‑call burden across the DRS fleet.
• CI/CD and deployment safety: Build and improve pipelines, deployment guardrails, and rollback mechanisms to ship changes safely across all regions and platform variants.
• Cross‑platform support: Develop and maintain tooling that works reliably across a wide range of operating systems (various Linux distributions and Windows) and both x86/64 and ARM64 (Graviton) architectures.
• Monitoring and resilience: Implement monitoring, alarming, and self‑healing systems to detect and remediate issues before they impact customers' replication and recovery operations.
• Scaling and performance: Tune and scale the systems behind continuous replication, capacity management, and recovery orchestration to handle growth gracefully.
• Operational excellence: Drive down ticket and incident volume through durable, programmatic fixes; lead root‑cause analysis and contribute to runbooks and operational best practices.
• Security and compliance: Partner with security teams to harden the service and remediate findings, ensuring fixes are deployed consistently across the fleet.
• Cross‑team leverage: Build automation and tooling that serves multiple teams and raises the operational bar across DRS.

Skills

Automation

CI/CD

Linux/Unix

Python

Ruby

Golang

Java

C++

C#

Rust

Job description

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is seeking a Systems Development Engineer to build automation, tooling and operational infrastructure for reliable, secure, and efficient replication and recovery. You will treat operations as a software problem and work across Linux, Windows, x86_64 and ARM64 environments.

Responsibilities include automating provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, cross‑platform tooling, monitoring, scalability, and security collaboration with teams to reduce toil and improve runbooks