AWS Security is looking for a driven professional to join its high-security systems engineering team to manage the operation of our physical access control system (PACS), as well as help us automate a sustainable and robust architecture for future growth.

As an SysDev, you will be responsible for the overall health and security of our critical service, providing excellent customer service to our partners in a classified environment.

Engineers on this team play an integral role in the future of physical security. You will own the integration with enterprise and commodity hardware through proprietary and open source protocols, build extensible management tooling by which customers are delighted, produce infrastructure as code and robust operational monitoring that scales with our growing infrastructure. You will make sure the entire deployment process is performant, automated, and well tested to keep development iteration fast and unhindered by unnecessary operational misses.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

Key job responsibilities

- Develop and operate the physical access control system (PACS), ensuring its overall health, availability, and security

- Build integrations with enterprise and commodity hardware through proprietary and open source protocols

- Develop extensible management tooling and custom APIs for security system integration

- Build automation frameworks for infrastructure as code (IaC) deployment and configuration management

- Create monitoring and alerting systems to track service health and detect anomalies

- Implement secure communication and authentication between distributed systems

- 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 operating and improving the physical access control systems that secure our classified environments. Expect hands-on coding, peer code reviews, and diving into distributed systems to improve reliability, scalability, and security. You'll build infrastructure as code, integrate enterprise and commodity hardware, and develop monitoring and alerting to keep the PACS healthy. You'll automate routine operational work so the team stays fast and agile, and partner directly with internal customers to understand their challenges and deliver practical solutions in a classified environment.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure

- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust

- Experience with Linux/Unix

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services

- Experience integrating enterprise or commodity hardware through proprietary or open source protocols

- Experience building monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling for production systems

- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration management

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 - 129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually