Sr. Systems Development Engineer , US Dedicated Cloud Security

Job :  | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

AWS Security is seeking a seasoned Senior Systems Development Engineer to join our team building next-generation infrastructure solutions for Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC). ADC extends the full power of AWS cloud infrastructure to customers, countries, and organizations with the most stringent security, compliance, and data sovereignty requirements — including government, defense, and regulated industries.

This is a high‑impact, high‑visibility role where your systems expertise and architectural decisions will directly shape the reliability, scalability, and security of infrastructure operating at global scale.

• Architect, deliver, and operate large-scale infrastructure automation and deployment pipelines for ADC environments with a focus on security, availability, repeatability, observability, and fault tolerance.
• Drive technical design reviews and align across multiple engineering and operations teams.
• Define and champion systems engineering standards, tooling, and best practices across the organization.
• Proactively identify and resolve systemic infrastructure risks before they impact customers.
• Mentor and develop junior and mid‑level engineers, accelerating their growth and technical effectiveness.

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers, helping them understand ADC capabilities, constraints, and best practices.
• Engage directly with customer technical teams to gather requirements, troubleshoot issues, and deliver solutions that meet operational and compliance needs.
• Translate complex customer requirements — including security, sovereignty, and regulatory mandates — into actionable infrastructure designs and implementation plans.
• Lead and participate in customer‑facing technical reviews, briefings, and working sessions, communicating clearly to both technical and executive audiences.
• Act as a customer advocate within AWS, surfacing feedback and emerging needs to product and engineering teams to drive roadmap prioritization.
• Support customers during critical operational events, providing hands‑on technical guidance and coordinating cross‑team response efforts when needed.
• Build and maintain strong, trust‑based relationships with customer stakeholders, ensuring long‑term satisfaction and confidence in ADC solutions.

• A challenger and motivator who embraces hard problems and drives innovative automated solutions.
• A clear and compelling communicator able to articulate designs and complex concepts to audiences ranging from interns to directors.
• Curious and contrarian when it counts, comfortable taking contrarian viewpoints that serve the customer.
• A proactive, long‑term thinker who considers all choices and outcomes before committing.
• Patient and persistent, operating with an ingrained improvement loop of setting goals, designing solutions, executing, refining, and continuously raising the bar.

• 6+ years of development/programming/scripting experience in Python, Java, Bash, or Perl.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, ops automation, and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible.
• Current, active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance with polygraph.
• US Citizen.

• Knowledge of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST.
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP.
• Knowledge of common security‑relevant protocols like SSH, TLS, DNS, DHCP, NTP, or ICMP.
• Experience leading highly‑available and fault‑tolerant enterprise and web‑scale software deployments.

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

The base salary range for this position is  –  USD annually.

Location:

USA, VA, Herndon.