Systems Development Engineer, RSCI Collaborative Services

Overview

Region Services Corporate Infrastructure (RSCI) Collaborative Services is looking for an experienced System Development Engineer with strong Linux, Python, and Power Shell skills to build, automate, and improve services deployed across isolated AWS partitions. You will own the engineering and operational excellence for services including Exchange, Skype for Business, Certificate Authority, Network Policy Service (802.1x/RADIUS), HyperV, Data Protection Manager (DPM), AD user provisioning, artifact delivery via Diode, AI‑powered incident notification, and supporting automation, scripting, and monitoring/alarming infrastructure.

Must hold an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which you perform AWS work.

• Design, build, and maintain serverless and containerized systems (Lambda, Elastic Container Service (ECS) Fargate, DynamoDB, Simple Queue Service (SQS), Event Bridge) deployed across multiple isolated AWS partitions
• Write and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code (Cloud Development Kit (CDK)/Cloud Formation) for multi‑region deployments
• Own CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation across multiple isolated regions
• Build monitoring, alarming, and observability tooling for service health across air‑gapped boundaries
• Write Python and Power Shell to automate operational processes and integrate systems
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, Operational Readiness Review (ORR)
• Coach teammates on engineering best practices and operational excellence
• Provide on‑call support

Our mission is to deliver robust, highly available, and easy‑to‑use services to our internal customers in support of the Amazon Dedicated Cloud for U.S. Government customers. You will design, build, and ship code that improves service reliability, automates manual processes, and delivers new capabilities across air‑gapped regions.

On a typical day you might troubleshoot a Diode transfer failure blocking artifact delivery to a region, build a new Lambda function to automate a manual AD provisioning step, improve CDK infrastructure for a multi‑partition deployment, build automation to improve and develop Windows enterprise services, or investigate why event notifications aren't reaching the right teams.

• 2+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 1+ year of designing or architecting new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability and scaling)
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, Power Shell, Ruby
• Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• 2+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands‑on systems engineering experience
• Current, active U.S. Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology

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