System Development Engineer, Region Services Corporate Infrastructure (RSCI) Team

Region Services Corporate Infrastructure (RSCI) Core Services owns the foundational Windows
infrastructure that every team in Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) depends on Active Directory
DNS DHCP DFS Group Policy and Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM). These services run
across multiple isolated environments supporting U.S. Government customers.

We are not looking for someone to maintain the status quo. Our team is transforming from a
manually-operated infrastructure organization into a DevOps-driven engineering team. We need a
Systems Development Engineer who will own the design and implementation of our automation
architecture building the Ansible frameworks AWS pipelines and operational tooling that eliminate manual processes and enable our services to scale.

This is not a write a playbook when you get time role. You will architect how we codify deploy
configure and lifecycle-manage Windows infrastructure services through automation. You will
design reusable Ansible roles and collections build CI/CD pipelines using AWS CDK instrument
services with CloudWatch monitoring and establish the patterns that the rest of the team adopts.
You need working familiarity with the Windows services we manage but your primary value is
your ability to engineer the systems that manage them.

You will also participate in an on-call rotation owning incidents for the services your automation
manages. When things break you fix them and then you build the automation that prevents
recurrence.

The candidate selected must obtain and maintain a security clearance at the TS/SCI with polygraph level. Upon start the selected candidate will be sponsored for a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Key job responsibilities
Own automation architecture: Design and implement the Ansible automation framework
(roles collections inventories execution patterns) that manages Core Services infrastructure at scale
Build delivery pipelines: Develop and maintain AWS CI/CD pipelines (CDK CodePipeline
CodeBuild) that deliver infrastructure changes through tested repeatable deployments
Instrument and monitor: Build CloudWatch-based observability dashboards alarms and
metrics that provide proactive visibility into service health across isolated environments
Operate and support: Maintain production Windows infrastructure services (AD DNS
DHCP DFS ECM Group Policy); participate in on-call rotation and provide escalation
support
Eliminate manual operations: Identify prioritize and migrate manual runbook processes to
code-defined version-controlled automation
Establish engineering standards: Define patterns for infrastructure-as-code testing code

What This Role Is NOT:
This is not a desktop support or endpoint engineering role
This is not a keep the lights on operations role where automation is a side project
This is not a Linux/Unix position our infrastructure is Windows our automation targets Windows and our scripting is PowerShell-heavy
This is a role where you are expected to write code daily own systems end-to-end and drive architectural decisions
review and deployment that the team follows raise the engineering bar
Mentor and lead technically: Guide junior engineers on automation practices code quality
and operational excellence; drive technical design reviews
Maintain documentation: Create and maintain architecture documentation automation
design docs and operational runbooks

- 2 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 1 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby
- Cloud or GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner) or Associates degree or above
- 5 years of systems design software development operations automation and process improvement experience
- Experience with infrastructure as code ops automation and configuration management tools such as Chef Puppet or Ansible
- Working familiarity with Windows Server infrastructure: Active Directory DNS DHCP Group Policy

- Experience with infrastructure as code ops automation and configuration management tools such as Chef Puppet or Ansible
- Deep knowledge of Active Directory architecture (multi-domain forests replication sites/services certificate services)
- Experience with AWS CDK (TypeScript or Python) for defining infrastructure
- Experience operating in air-gapped or isolated network environments
- Familiarity with ECM/SCCM/MECM for OS deployment and patch management
- Experience with DFS namespaces and replication
- Experience designing Ansible automation for Windows targets (WinRM Windows modules)
- Track record of replacing manual operational processes with scalable automation bring examples
- Experience with infrastructure testing frameworks (Molecule Pester or equivalent)
- Understanding of PKI/certificate services and identity management in Windows environments
- Experience with PowerShell (preferred) Python Ruby or Java

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Bellevue - 129200.00 - 174800.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 129200.00 - 174800.00 USD annually