Systems Development Manager - AI-Ready Tier-1 Ops Lead

Amazon

Bellevue (WA)

On-site

USD 166,000 - 225,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon Leo Productivity Infrastructure & Engineering seeks a Systems Development Manager to lead a mature team and own the reliability, security, and strategic direction of the ALPINE service portfolio. You will operate primarily within AWS GovCloud and partner daily with Security, Global Trade & Compliance, and other teams.

You will guide architecture and roadmap while driving AI-integration readiness and ensuring operational excellence across Tier-1 services.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
5+ years of managing system or software development teams experience.
Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure.
Experience programming with languages such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust.
Experience with Linux/Unix.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes.
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
Experience with managing a high velocity team.

Responsibilities

Lead, grow, and develop a team of systems development engineers; own hiring, performance, and career growth.
Own the operational health, reliability, and security of ALPINE's Tier-1 service portfolio across commercial and GovCloud environments.
Set technical and operational strategy across the portfolio; partner with the Sr. Engineers to steer architecture and roadmap.
Uphold export-control compliance (ITAR/CUI) across all services, in partnership with Global Trade & Compliance and Leo Security.
Drive AI-integration readiness; enabling AI agents to interact safely with ALPINE services within user permission boundaries.
Represent ALPINE in cross-org forums; manage stakeholder relationships and escalations.
Own operational excellence: OnCall leadership, incident response, runbooks, monitoring, and change management.
Balance sustaining critical production services with advancing platform modernization and automation.
Set and communicate priorities, remove blockers, and shield the team so engineers can do their best work.