System Development Manager, Foundational Security Services

Position: System Development Manager, Amazon Foundational Security Services
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DESCRIPTION:

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bellevue, WA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

The development and operation of large-scale services involve complex product and business tradeoffs coupled with challenging engineering problems to overcome. If you're driven, enjoy working on high-performing teams, and passionate about Cloud Security then what are you waiting for? Come join our AWS security team.

Each day, hundreds of thousands of developers make billions of transactions worldwide on our cloud. They harness the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable innovative applications, websites, and businesses. The AWS Security team owns security for all of these services offered by AWS, including EC2, S3, and many others.

Our team works with the numerous Amazon groups to solve security challenges at massive scale relating to authentication and access control. We enable trust by building an internal authentication platform that meets the security goals of our customers, from compliance to analysis. We dive deep into security technologies such as new authentication systems, hardware security components, cryptography, system hardening, and massive-scale audit analysis.

Our team is looking for a highly curious software and systems professionals to join us and help us continue to raise the security bar for cloud computing. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about delivering results. You should be passionate about solving security hurdles in innovative ways. We do not desire to simply produce good software here at AWS Security, we want to produce disruptive, history changing innovations.

Amazon has a fast-paced environment where we "Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History." A typical day on our team involves working with users to design new security features, prototyping and demonstrating features to your users, deploying software through our large automated systems, and operationally supporting newly deployed software. The team looks for radical new approaches to automate fixes for operational issues, works with AWS services to solve design problems, and interacts with AWS teams to integrate applications.

You'll be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success.

Key job responsibilities
As a System Development Manager you will:
- Lead a team to build and rollout systems to multiple global regions.
- Have end to end ownership of major engineering projects within the Enterprise Engineering space.
- Build Infrastructure as Code and Dev Ops tooling.
- Create processes that can be leveraged to help drive efficiencies and quality.
- Work closely with our internal customers to help alleviate their problems and meet their demands.
- Work on new designs/solutions, bringing them from concept to launch and operations.
- Create and update our infrastructure and security standards and ensure that the systems adheres these standards.
- Review and implement changes on the systems utilizing thorough test plans.
- Lead efforts to drive automation teams to assist in defining the tools we require.
- Drive operational excellence projects to drive improvements in our system quality and reliability.
- Work with a wide range of technologies.
- Work on a variety of hardware platforms across multiple vendors.

A day in the life
In this role, you own a key technology in the AWS ecosystem. You and your team will directly influence the AWS technology ecosystem. You will be join a group of technology leaders that are focused on to delighting our customers while helping AWS deliver new tooling and services to enable massive growth.…