Systems Automation & Infra Engineer II

Amazon.com Services LLC; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Herndon, VA is seeking a Systems Development Engineer II who sits at the intersection of software and infrastructure: you build deployment pipelines, fleet automation, monitoring, and operational tooling to run a global, safety-critical access control system with minimal manual toil.

You’ll design systems that require minimal long-term maintenance, automate manual processes, and create tools that scale across Amazon's physical-access infrastructure, spanning AWS data

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

• 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 mean-time-to-recovery.
• Lead technical design for medium-to-large infrastructure initiatives, balancing complexity, scalability, security, and delivery speed.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (e.g., AWS CDK/CloudFormation) to provision and manage services and their supporting resources.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues across the stack, from service code to underlying infrastructure and device connectivity.
• Improve deployment safety and release velocity through automated testing, bake/rollback gating, and reduction of change-related risk.
• Partner with software engineers, security, and operations teams to harden systems that must be highly available and secure by design.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation for the services you own, and continuously reduce operational load through engineering.

Skills

Automation new infra

CI/CD pipelines

Linux/Unix

Programming languages

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Herndon, VA is seeking a Systems Development Engineer II who sits at the intersection of software and infrastructure: you build deployment pipelines, fleet automation, monitoring, and operational tooling to run a global, safety-critical access control system with minimal manual toil.

You’ll design systems that require minimal long-term maintenance, automate manual processes, and create tools that scale across Amazon's physical-access infrastructure, spanning AWS data