Amazon · 2 hours ago
System Development Manager, Amazon Foundational Security Services
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $259K/yr
5+ years expAmazon is seeking a System Development Manager to join their AWS security team. This role involves leading a team to build and rollout systems while ensuring security standards are met and operational excellence is achieved.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Lead a team to build and rollout systems to multiple global regions
Have end to end ownership of major engineering projects within the Enterprise Engineering space
Build Infrastructure as Code and DevOps tooling
Create processes that can be leveraged to help drive efficiencies and quality
Work closely with our internal customers to help alleviate their problems and meet their demands
Work on new designs/solutions, bringing them from concept to launch and operations
Create and update our infrastructure and security standards and ensure that the systems adheres these standards
Review and implement changes on the systems utilizing thorough test plans
Lead efforts to drive automation teams to assist in defining the tools we require
Drive operational excellence projects to drive improvements in our system quality and reliability
Work with a wide range of technologies
Work on a variety of hardware platforms across multiple vendors
Qualification
Required
5+ years of systems engineering and operations leadership for an Internet service or leading edge IT organization experience
5+ years of managing system or software development teams experience
7+ years of relevant hands-on systems engineering and administrative work in networking, storage systems, operating systems experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Preferred
Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
Experience with Agile engineering practices (Kanban, continuous delivery, etc.)
Experience with AWS platforms, services, and design patterns
Experience in operational excellence, security compliance, and distributed systems resiliency
Experience in root cause analysis and error correction, identifying changes to procedures and systems to implement long-term fixes and avoid repeating issues
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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