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Amazon · 20 hours ago

Systems Development Engineer, Controlled Working Environment, WWPS Engineering

Arlington, Virginia, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$129K/yr - $175K/yr

7+ years exp

Amazon Web Services is seeking a top industry technical expert to grow their Controlled Working Environment team. The role involves architecting and developing tools to help international governments implement cloud-enabled agencies, while managing user applications and improving operations.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Investigating new ways to improve operations

Defining and developing new solutions to solve technically complex cloud issues for our customers

Investigating system variances about to affect customer applications before an actual outage occurs

Diving deep into new service announcements to determine unique ways to implement them to improve the effectiveness of the CWE

Managing user applications like JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, Duo, etc

Studying and learning from industry recognized Amazon distinguished engineers

Qualification

PythonC++Systems EngineeringAgileNetwork AdministrationRubyPowerShellJava

Required

2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

7+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience

Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)

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

Preferred

Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java

Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology

Benefits

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

Parental leave

Company

Amazon

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Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

Founded in 1994

Seattle, Washington, USA

10001+ employees

https://amazon.com

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$8.11B

Key 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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