System Development Manager, US Amazon Dedicated Cloud Security

The US ADC Security Engineering team is looking for a System Development Manager to support Operations in Herndon, VA.

The AWS US ADC Security Engineering team builds and provides operational support for internal tools used by Security Engineers across the Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) space. Our Systems Development Managers work in a fast-paced environment across many disciplines, collaborating with other AWS teams to deliver services for our customers.

You will be passionate about both development and operations, and have a strong desire to learn about Amazon's development lifecycle. This is a true Dev Ops role; you will be both allowed and expected to follow problems all the way to the end and work on implementing real solutions, not just quick fixes. You will want to dive deep and understand how these large systems work.

If you like to focus on customer experience, are passionate about Security, and act globally and want to contribute to the operational excellence of Amazon and our ADC Spaces, we’d like to meet you!

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

• Develop and deploy operational tools to automate processes and reduce operational overhead
• Hire, Develop, and Mentor team members.
• Work with other engineers to build and manage massively scaled services
• Work with other engineers to diagnose and resolve customer issues
• Track the health of our services, identify and fix problems on complex systems with massive scale
• Collaborate with some of the leading minds in distributed systems
• Participating in 24/7 on‑call rotation to troubleshoot high severity issues

• Various distros and their corresponding package management tools
• Permissions and permissions management
• System logging and auditing
• Log parsing using grep, awk, sed, cut, tr, etc
• Remote access via SSH
• Knowledge of procfs & sysfs
• Linux tools (ip, ifconfig, netstat, tcpdump, strace, netcat, ping, telnet, etc)
• System Monitoring Tools (top, stat tools, etc)
• DNS and tools (bind, host, dig, nslookup, etc)
• Runlevel management tools (systemd, rc.d, inittab, chkconfig, etc)

• Git (or other CM tools)
• Agile development
• CI/CD or development pipelines

You will bring a detail‑oriented approach and excellent problem‑solving abilities, backed by a deep understanding of distributed system design and delivery. Your contributions will leverage cross‑functional business and technical skills, assessing and managing risks, measuring and reporting on progress, anticipating and resolving bottlenecks, providing escalation management, making tradeoffs, and balancing business needs with technical constraints.

You will drive engineering deliverables through influence rather than authority, manage repair requests in a high‑volume environment, and respond to high‑severity events. Regular presentations to senior leadership will require you to synthesize problems and solutions into a simple and consumable manner. Additionally, you will be responsible for data collection, analytics, and dashboard creation to help others identify the best paths for business improvement.

The ADC Security Engineering team supports the ADC Security Organization and its customers through the development and maintenance of specialized tooling. The team focuses on creating robust, efficient, and innovative solutions that enhance security measures and streamline processes within the organization. The ADC Security Engineering team continuously improves and expands our toolkit to address evolving security challenges to meet the diverse needs of our stakeholders.

The tools we develop empower the broader ADC Security Organization to effectively protect assets, mitigate risks, and ensure compliance across various security domains.

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage…