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AWS Security is looking for a driven professional to join its US ADC Security Engineering team to support the development of tools and automation for Amazon Dedicated Clouds (ADCs) and Cleared Programs. As a Software Development Engineer (SDE), you'll own the development, operations, and overall health and security of the critical services we support, providing excellent customer service to our partners in a classified environment.
In this role you will:
- Own integrations with enterprise and commodity hardware through proprietary and open source protocols
- Build extensible management tooling that delights customers
- Produce infrastructure as code and robust operational monitoring that scales with our growing infrastructure
- Keep the deployment process performant, automated, and well tested so development stays fast
- This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop high-availability distributed software with an emphasis on security, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Build and integrate custom APIs and middleware for security system integration
- Develop automation frameworks for infrastructure as code (IaC) deployment and configuration management
- Build monitoring and alerting systems to track the health and security of our services
- Implement secure communication and authentication between distributed systems
- Contribute to technical design reviews and security architecture discussions
- Write high-quality, maintainable code and perform peer code reviews
- Partner with internal customers to understand operational challenges and deliver solutions
A day in the life
You'll spend your day building and operating the tools and automation that support ADC Security Engineering. Expect hands-on coding, peer code reviews, and diving into distributed systems to improve security, scalability, and reliability. You'll develop infrastructure as code, build monitoring and alerting to keep our services healthy, and automate routine operational work so the team stays fast and agile. You'll also partner directly with internal customers to understand their operational challenges and deliver practical solutions in a classified environment.
About the team
The AWS US ADC Security Engineering team builds and provides operational support for the internal tools that Security Engineers rely on across the Amazon Dedicated Cloud space. We work in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary environment, collaborating with other AWS teams to deliver services for our customers, and we care deeply about security, customer experience, and operational excellence.
Amazon Security values diverse experiences, so even if you don't meet every qualification listed, we encourage you to apply. We value work-life harmony and offer flexible arrangements, ongoing learning, and real opportunities for career growth.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in automation or monitoring frameworks, deployment or development
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Experience with infrastructure as code, ops automation, and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, VA, Herndon - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually