Sr. Systems Dev Engineer, Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper)

Amazon Leo Productivity Infrastructure & Engineering (ALPINE)

ALPINE is seeking a motivated and autonomous builder to focus on Infrastructure for our SAP ERP & MES systems. This is a hands-on position where your daily activities will range from strategic planning to new system development to supporting the customers that depend on our services. Deliver consistent, well-defined results in an agile systems development workflow. To succeed in this role, you will deliver reliable, highly available, scalable, controlled working environments built on AWS. Export Control Requirements: Due to the need to access certain federal controlled information, you must be a U.S. citizen for consideration.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure, including EC2, CloudFormation Templates, AppStream, and Load Balancers.
• Design and manage best in class cloud, on premise and hybrid service environments.
• Build dashboarding and alarming to drive operational excellence.
• Work with a wide range of technologies, and AWS products.
• Build enterprise-grade AWS application environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Architect and setup infrastructure on AWS GovCloud.
• Analyze and support setup of new device connectivity to enterprise applications and services.
• Monitor network connectivity between all internal and external systems.
• Partner with application owners to understand needs and plan for infrastructure demands.
• Drive automation of routine tasks to help scale the operations.
• Maintain hardware architecture documentation for all infrastructure and networking components.

A Day In The Life

In this role, you will function as a DevOps Engineer. You will work with stakeholders and senior engineers to design and develop Infrastructure solutions and integrations in a secure manner. You will directly guide the technical direction of the team.

About The Team

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. At Amazon, our mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright and driven people. We're dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
• 5+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
• 5+ years experience with Linux/Unix
• 5+ years experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems at scale

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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