System Development Engineer II, AWS ADC Monitoring & Observability

Do you enjoy helping U.S. Intelligence Community and Defense agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions? Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies while being part of the world's most advanced cloud infrastructure?

This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's technical team! Work alongside skilled engineers and technical leaders while developing your expertise in one of the most innovative technology companies.

AWS CloudWatch is seeking System Development engineers who are passionate about troubleshooting technical issues, automating manual processes, and continuously improving service efficiency to enhance customer experience. In this role, you will support CloudWatch Monitoring and CloudWatch Logs services in specialized security regions. You'll work in a dynamic environment with our software development teams to deliver reliable services to our customers.

AWS CloudWatch provides customers actionable visibility into the health of their applications and systems. Key features include web services for submission and retrieval of measurements, a console for presentation, and the ability to notify and automate based on metrics. Teams in CloudWatch solve problems of massive telemetric data scale, distributed systems, data visualization, and operational workflow.

Is this role right for you? You're motivated to grow your technical skills and advance your career. You want to automate tasks in distributed systems that operate at scale. You enjoy diving into data to identify root causes of issues affecting performance and availability. You find satisfaction in performance engineering and service scaling. You're committed to delivering high-quality, reliable, always-on services to our customers.

Strong candidates will have experience with Linux command line and bash or Python scripting in large-scale environments, and solid understanding of networking and distributed systems concepts. You should demonstrate enthusiasm for technical deep-dives, strong communication skills, and the ability to prioritize and organize complex work.

Together, we'll deliver innovative cloud features and help every organization run on the cloud. We'll design, develop, and deploy highly scalable platforms. We'll shape the future of cloud technology through our work!

Security Requirement: 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 maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.