Systems Development Engineer, Keya

- 4+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 4+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above
- 4+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers
- 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- 4+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
The Keya team is looking for a Systems Development Engineer. The Keya team works with and supports the services and tools which support AWS User Experience Products and Platforms (UXP2), Documentation and SDKs. As a member of this team, you will be exposed to most AWS services and technologies. Our System Development Engineers work in a fast-paced environment with our multi-disciplined service teams to deliver services to our customers. Keya team members own the scaling and management of services across AWS regions supporting the US Government.

A Keya System Development Engineer will:

- Work with other engineers to build and manage massively scaled services
- Automate common tasks and processes

- Work with other engineers to diagnose and resolve customer issues
- Track the health of our services, identify and fix problems on complex systems with massive scale
- Collaborate with some of the leading minds in distributed systems

The candidate should be familiar with Linux, including the following:

- Various distros and their corresponding package management tools
- Permissions and permissions management
- File System partitioning, formatting, and mounting
- Log parsing using grep, awk, sed, cut, tr, etc
- Remote access via ssh
- Proc file system
- Network tools (ip, ifconfig, netstat, tcpdump, strace, netcat, ping, telnet, etc
- System Monitoring Tools (top, *stat tools, etc)
- DNS and tools (bind, host, dig, nslookup, etc)
- Runlevel management tools (systemd, rc.d, inittab, chkconfig, etc)

This position can consider candidates for the Arlington, VA, Columbia, MD, or Denver, CO locations.

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.

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