Systems Development Manager Jobs in Renton, WA (NOW HIRING)

The Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) Region Reliability team is searching for a talented, detail-oriented Systems Development Manager (SysDM) to support AWS activities in US ADC regions supporting the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.
A SysDM will work to solve service-centric technical and business problems, devise strategy, and facilitate technology solutions that may not yet be defined. They will deliver independently, with limited guidance, across cross-functional initiatives. Additionally, individuals must act as force multipliers, understand escalation, and find a path forward in difficult situations

The role also necessitates understanding security risks caused by technical complexity, and being able to make trade-offs between short-term and long-term needs.
From Day 1, SysDMs are given ownership of a distributed team of engineers responsible for the operational health services in secure, air-gapped cloud environments. You'll own the team's roadmap, from hiring and developing talent, to defining automation strategy, to ensuring your services meet or exceed their availability and performance targets. You won't wait for direction; you'll assess the landscape, identify the highest-impact opportunities, and start driving results.
On a day-to-day basis, you will lead your team through a mix of operational and strategic work

That means triaging and resolving service issues, driving root cause analysis to prevent repeat incidents, and building the dashboards and metrics that keep your team ahead of problems rather than reacting to them. You'll partner with service teams and program managers to support new region builds and feature launches, ensuring operational readiness before go-live. You'll also spend meaningful time on your people, coaching engineers, removing blockers, shaping career paths, and building a team culture grounded in ownership and continuous improvement.
This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance

The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.
Key job responsibilities
Lead, hire, develop, and retain a team of engineers supporting services in secure, air-gapped AWS ADC regions;
- Own your team's operational roadmap, working backwards from customer problems to define priorities, scope work, and deliver results;
- Drive operational excellence through automation, metrics, and process improvements that reduce manual toil and enable the team to scale;
- Triage and resolve service issues, lead root cause analysis, and implement preventative fixes so problems do not repeat;
- Partner with service teams, program managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to support new region builds, feature launches, and service parity across ADC regions;
- Identify and manage technical and operational risks, clearly communicating trade-offs and mitigation strategies to stakeholders;
- Track and report your team's progress using metrics that capture customer impact, SLA compliance, and system health.
A day in the life
RRE Line managers manage a team of Region Reliability Engineers. A typical day includes working with the team in the SCIF assigning and unblocking workflows, working with partner teams to drive manual task reduction through automation, drive root cause analysis for complex issues, and ensure team SLAs are consistently being met. You will mentor and grow your team, and drive strategic initiatives to generate efficiencies across operational practices

About the team
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