ADC Engineer , AWS ADC Monitoring & Observability

Description

Final date to receive applications:
Jul 14, 2026

Do you enjoy helping U.S. Intelligence Community and Defense agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions? Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies while being part of the world’s most advanced cloud infrastructure?

This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's technical team. Work alongside skilled engineers and technical leaders while developing your expertise in one of the most innovative technology companies.

AWS Cloud Watch is seeking engineers who are passionate about troubleshooting technical issues, automating manual processes, and continuously improving service efficiency to enhance customer experience. In this role, you will support Cloud Watch Monitoring and Cloud Watch Logs services in specialized security regions. You'll work in a dynamic environment with our software development teams to deliver reliable services to our customers.

AWS Cloud Watch provides customers actionable visibility into the health of their applications and systems. Key features include web services for submission and retrieval of measurements, a console for presentation, and the ability to notify and automate based on metrics. Teams in Cloud Watch solve problems of massive telemetric data scale, distributed systems, data visualization, and operational workflow.

Is this role right for you? You're motivated to grow your technical skills and advance your career. You want to automate tasks in distributed systems that operate  enjoy diving into data to identify root causes of issues affecting performance and availability. You find satisfaction in performance engineering and service scaling. You're committed to delivering high-quality, reliable, always-on services to our customers.

• Strong candidates will have experience with Linux command line and bash or Python scripting in large-scale environments, and solid understanding of networking and distributed systems concepts. You should demonstrate enthusiasm for technical deep-dives, strong communication skills, and the ability to prioritize and organize complex work.

• Analyze defined projects and break down the work to help define milestones and success criteria
• Identify when implementations lack high availability or contain defects; investigate systemic patterns
• Resolve, mitigate, or escalation operational concerns in a timely manner
• Support the operational stability of Cloud Watch and Cloud Watch Logs services in ADC environments

• Investigate the root cause of a customer issue impacting Cloud Watch service visibility
• Analyze metric trends to identify performance degradation or capacity concerns
• Collaborate with the team on automation opportunities for common operational tasks
• Participate in on-call rotations, responding to service alerts and customer issues
• Dive deep into logs and metrics to understand system behavior and dependencies
• Discuss and implement improvements to team's operational processes

• High school or equivalent diploma, or A+ or CND (Certified Network Defender) or Network+ or Security+
• 1+ years Linux systems administration experience
• 1+ years technical troubleshooting / support experience
• 1+ years of networking experience
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above

• Experience with distributed systems at scale
• Experience with service-oriented architecture and web services
• Experience with systems administration on either Linux/UNIX or Windows operating systems

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Your base salary range for this position is USD 91,000. annually. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..