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Technical Infrastructure Program Manager, AWS Direct Connect

Amazon Data Services, Inc. Herndon, VA
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Do you thrive on delivering complex software and networking projects across multiple sites and regions? Do you enjoy driving customer’s business requirements into reality, and meeting their needs? In Direct Connect, we’re working on the future. If you are seeking an iterative fast-paced environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve extreme-scale real world delivery challenges, and provide visible benefit to end-users, this is your opportunity. Come work on the Amazon Direct Connect Team!

Background:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and networking services that help organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale applications. Our services are trusted by the largest enterprises and the hottest startups to power a wide variety of workloads.

The AWS Direct Connect team delivers solutions that make it easy for customers to establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to the AWS cloud. These connections help to reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections. Direct Connect is currently available in more than 130+ locations in 84 cities located in 32 countries.
This position can be based in Seattle WA or Herndon VA.

Opportunity
In this role of Tech Infra Program Manager (TIPM), you will provide project leadership, anticipate bottlenecks, mitigate project risks, quantify the impact of making tradeoffs, and balance business needs against technical constraints. The team has a challenging task of balancing cost, schedule, and innovation-based problems. You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced and often uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and meticulousness. This TIPM will lead infrastructure deployment projects across a wide range of technologies and standards. This role will give you an opportunity to work with many different teams across the organization to deliver solution.

The Ideal Candidate
If you are someone who has passion for technology and you have demonstrated experience for the same, we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate has the courage of conviction. To be successful, you must combine superb technical, research and analytical capabilities, and bias for action to get the right things done quickly and effectively. This person must have the ability to deal with ambiguity, think creatively, be comfortable working with a team of top-notch software engineers, network development engineers and collaborating with our partnering teams. We’re looking for people who innovate and love solving hard problems. Cross-team coordination, project management, and executive presentation skills are also essential.
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Senior Software Dev Engineer, AWS Proactive Security

Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. Herndon, VA
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**This role is open to alternative locations including: New York, NY – Arlington, VA**

AWS Security is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE) to build systems that can ensure security of all of our services. We are building testing and detection that will scale automatically. As a SDE on the team you'll build services that solve complex, ambiguous problems at the scale of the entire AWS cloud. Our team owns security solutions that are used by the entire company. You will lead the design and implementation of a highly scalable and available service from end-to-end, and will raise the bar for quality and delivery through mentorship of other engineers on the team and across the organization. This is a highly visible role within a highly visible program at AWS and is one which provides significant opportunity to think big and deliver secure solutions for our customers.

Key job responsibilities
Senior SDEs on the team lead the technical direction and strategy for the service, including the design of architecture and code. They create working software which delivers simple solutions to complex problems, from prototype through delivery.

A day in the life
You will perform meaningful and timely code reviews while coaching and mentoring other members of the team. You will regularly collaborate with team members to identify process improvements and define and communicate best practices. You will also weigh in and provide critical feedback on architecture and design decisions being made by other teams.


About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 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, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. 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.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
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Sr. Software Development Engineer

Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. Herndon, VA
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This position is located in Herndon, VA. At Amazon Web Services, is job zero. Our team is responsible for inventing new services that enable and power security solutions at a massive scale. We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE) to help innovate and build new services from the ground up that will make security easier to manage for AWS product teams. Our team is building a comprehensive security management platform that helps internal customers improve their security state by surfacing security findings and recommending remediation with a seamless customer experience. You will work in an agile team to deliver solutions that will enable AWS product teams to securely deliver the world’s largest cloud platform. Come build with us!

We are looking for a Senior SDE who is excited about engineering services and systems at scale. This role requires a deep understanding of distributed systems as well as how to handle data at scale. In this role you will be responsible for the architecture, design and implementation of highly scalable distributed product that provides availability, scalability and latency guarantees. In addition, you will raise the standards of the organization by mentoring junior engineers, interviewing and up-leveling the coding standards. This is a highly visible program across AWS where you will have the opportunity to have a huge impact. Strong verbal and written communication skills, being proactive ad self-driven and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment, will drive success.


A day in the life
My team's mission is to define, measure, enable, and evangelize the core enduring principles that raise the security bar across all of Amazon. We build security tooling, services and products that teams across Amazon rely on for standardized reporting, meeting their defined SLAs and most importantly upholding the security standards across all our systems.



About the team
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Work/Life Balance
We also put a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. Our team is committed to furthering our culture of inclusion, working our own, team-developed action plan to increase our inclusion, diversity, and equity. Our team members participate in many of Amazon's employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. 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.
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AWS Security Assurance Manager

Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. Herndon, VA
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At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS Security Assurance team is responsible for diving deep into industry requirements, establishing and maintaining customers and regulatory relationships for security requirements and establish long-term strategies to meet customer and regulatory security assurance needs and requirements. At AWS' scale, we hire experienced builders to design and operate scalable mechanisms to provide the highest level of assurance to our most regulatory conscious customers.

We are seeking a highly motivated Security Assurance Manager to join our evidence management team. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting our most security-conscious customers and internal security stakeholders. You will work alongside audit teams who are experts in their respective frameworks delivering evidence artifacts to demonstrate key risk objectives to strategically address compliance. Additionally, you will be responsible for understanding AWS’ operational and technical control environment while using high-judgement to demonstrate and communicate control posture to customers and stakeholders globally.

The successful candidate will work across many customer groups and compliance frameworks (Cloud Control Matrix, NIST, ISO etc.) to design solutions for complex compliance challenges. The team culture will encourage ownership, diversity, inclusion, and innovation. Our team members and management take a high degree of ownership for their program vision and execution of ideas. Our team members balance their unique perspective with those of the diverse perspectives of the team and its stakeholders. You will work directly with most divisions within AWS service to improve AWS’ ability to demonstrate assurances for our internal and external customers.

In this role, you will facilitate open and transparent relationships with AWS internal stakeholders, customers, and third-party auditors. We seek an experienced and industry professional who has the ability to understand core compliance frameworks, dive deep into IT processes, communicate to auditors, and to be able to drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams.

This role can be located in Seattle, WA, Herndon or Arlington, VA or Washington, D.C.

Key job responsibilities
• Understand and serve as a subject-matter expert around AWS security controls
• Manage evidence lifecycle for supported global customer audits across US, APJ and EMEA regions
• Communicate to leadership key risks and areas of program improvement, as well as seek diverse opinions and coordinate improvement efforts.
• Dive deep into the AWS control environment to develop broad domain and technical understanding of AWS control activities and implementation to articulate compliance to key stakeholders.
• Bridge communication with key stakeholders and AWS technical communities to articulate control implementation.
• Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of compliance program activities and recommend improvements to improve delivery at scale.
• Leading and managing projects and campaigns with excellent project management skills.
• Creating operational mechanisms to address recurring escalation patterns and persistent challenges
• Setting the vision and connecting the vision between technology, business strategies and requirements
• Communicating to senior leadership the status and key deliverables of team initiatives, seek diverse opinions and lead improvement efforts.
• Diving deep into the operations of AWS compliance programs to develop broad domain and technical understanding of regulatory and customer expectations to drive process improvement initiatives.
• Using high judgment to distill diverse inputs from large customer segments and stakeholders to set a vision and design the right long-term solutions.

About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth as a passionate learner that is motivated to take on challenges.

Work/Life Balance
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.
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Security Engineer, Infrastructure Application Security

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. Herndon, VA
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Help us protect not only the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing environment but all of our customers as well! Since 2006, our great team at AWS has been enabling our customers to bring great ideas to life in ways that aren’t possible in traditional IT environments. With AWS you can flexibly harness compute, storage, security, and other services from across the globe as your business demands them.

AWS Security is on the cutting edge of many security issues for a wide variety of platforms and technologies including cloud services, Internet of things (IoT), identity and access management, mobile devices, virtualization and custom hardware, all operating at massive scale. Similarly, our highly collaborative team is committed to each team member’s growth as our business grows.

AWS Security is looking for a Security Engineer to help validate that our corporate and data center infrastructure and the services built to support it are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for analyzing the security of our network, applications, and services, discovering and addressing security issues, building security automation, and quickly reacting to new threat scenarios. You will have the opportunity to learn from, and be mentored by, those who are building and securing our cutting-edge services.

You are expected to be strong in multiple domains and provide significant contributions to the AWS IT Security team and to multiple groups throughout Amazon. You are expected to develop elegant solutions to complex business problems and apply appropriate technologies while following security engineering best practices. You are also expected to mentor more junior engineers and be a security thought leader for the organization.

You will foster constructive dialogue and seek resolution when confronted with discordant views. Engineers in this role are expected to participate fully in the planning of the AWS IT Security team's work and constantly seek opportunities for process improvement. You should also have a deep understanding networking, while having an understanding of the application of information security in a broad range of technical areas.

You will need a combination of troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills, as well as the ability to handle a mix of disparate tasks which may include project and software development work. This role will provide career growth opportunities as you gain new security skills in the course of your duties.

Key job responsibilities
* Infrastructure, application, and network security reviews
* Secure architecture design
* Threat modeling
* Projects and research work as needed
* Security training and outreach to internal development teams
* Security guidance documentation
* Security tool development
* Security metrics delivery and improvements
* Assistance with recruiting activities and administrative work

About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 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, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. 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.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Herndon, VA, USA
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Commissioning Area Manager, AMER-East ACx

Amazon Data Services, Inc. Herndon, VA
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Are you experienced in Critical Infrastructure Commissioning Management or Lead and looking for a fast paced and cutting-edge environment to work in?

As a Commissioning Area Manager, you will be part of highly creative, efficient global team tasked with tackling fascinating and challenging problems building and supporting the operations of Amazon owned data centers. The Manager understands, evaluates, defines and manages the expectations of construction quality in accordance to engineering designs to meet the customer requirements.

The Cx Manager is responsible for supporting Commissioning Engineers ( CxE), vendors, contractors, and other teams involved in the construction and commissioning of various systems such as: -Medium and low voltage power systems -Generators -UPS -HVAC (Air Handlers / Exhaust Fans / VFD) -Chilled Water Systems -Building Management systems (BMS) -Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS) -Testing and balancing -Pumps and Hydronic systems The CxE Manager shall provide multi-discipline input into the scheduling, test script development, designing, and planning of projects. In addition, the CxE Manager will be required to review component submittal packages, lead Factory Witness Testing (FWT), perform system level and integrated system testing. During commissioning the CxE Manager will continuously audit activities to ensure compliance with environmental, quality, and safety requirements. Additionally, the individual will be responsible for comprehensive weekly reporting of status of all ongoing projects and lessons learned to continually improve the quality of our program.

This position will include coverage of multiple inflight projects and aggressive timelines:

• Physical Requirements
• Walk job sites in uneven terrain
• Work at heights and from ladders
• Regularly walk, use hands and fingers, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• Work shifts longer than eight hours in duration with potential for night and weekends
• Perform physical tasks throughout the day without becoming overly tired Ability to manipulate small wires and objects easily
• Work in a noisy environment
• Work in environments that are colder or hotter than a normal office environment Additional Job Requirements
• Ability to relocate to Northern Virginia Area • Ability and willingness to travel domestic and internationally for up to 50% of the year. Typical travel is 20%. • Required to provide personal transportation for meetings and job visits away from the office; reimbursed.


Key job responsibilities

• Assist in on boarding new team members through coaching and/or other orientation practices and career development of team
• Understand the current capabilities of automation tools and confirm they are being utilized to the full benefit of the department and project
• Develop, provide input and implement a detailed and integrated Commissioning process and execution plan
• Coordinate system walk-downs, punch-list closure, and turnover acceptance • Review and Maintain testing documentation
• Monitor engineering, construction, and sub-contractor performance in turning over the systems and sub-systems
• Enhance skills, performance and development of all employees by sponsoring and promoting completion training programs so that adherence to operations guidelines and specifications is ensured and work of the highest quality prevails
• Maintain safe and healthy work environment by following and enforcing established project procedures relating to safety, work permitting and work order systems; adhere to legal requirements
• Report discipline progress against scheduled activities
• Coordinate vendor and equipment support for commissioning activities • Ability to build effective relationships with customer, engineering, construction, and vendor personnel • Other duties as assigned
• Interface management / program management
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Windows Client Engineer, dnolton excl AI2

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. Herndon, VA
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Region Services Corporate Infrastructure (RSCI) is looking for an experienced Windows Client Systems Engineer with a deep knowledge of Windows desktop services, including virtual desktops and infrastructure. Our mission is to deliver robust, highly available, and easy to use services to our internal customers in support of the Amazon Dedicated Cloud for U.S. Government customers. We are looking for a motivated engineer to deliver results for our customers. This is a hands-on position where your daily role will maintain and enhance existing services, including Windows build / deployment capabilities, fulfilling requests for application packaging / deployment and break / fix scenarios for all technologies the team manages. This role will work closely with the Security Compliance team to ensure security compliance with all desktop environments.

You will have a strong and diverse technical background that allows you to approach problems with confidence and ingenuity. You must be a “lifelong learner”, embracing the rapid innovations in technology and understanding how to leverage them to continue to improve our products. A successful Windows Client Engineer will drive the design and implementation of new services, find ways to improve and automate our existing services, and provide escalation and mentoring for junior team members.

This position available onsite at Herndon, VA., Arlington, VA., Denver, CO., Seattle, WA., and Maryland.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain, or be eligible to obtain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.



Key job responsibilities
*Provide first line of support to the IT Service Desk Team
*Maintain Desktop OS Images/VDI templates
*Client patching
*Security compliance to include hardening the OS and desktop applications.
*Manage desktop metrics and monitoring services.
*Creates and updates system documentation for engineering, operations, and support teams.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Herndon, VA, USA
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Sr. Software Development Manager, Amazon Internal Auth

Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. Herndon, VA
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The development and operation of large-scale services involve complex product and business tradeoffs coupled with challenging engineering problems to overcome. If you're driven, enjoy working on high-performing teams, and passionate about Cloud Security then what are you waiting for? Come join our AWS security team.

Each day, hundreds of thousands of developers make billions of transactions worldwide on our cloud. They harness the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable innovative applications, websites, and businesses. The AWS Security team owns security for all of these services offered by AWS, including EC2, S3, and many others.

Our team works with the numerous Amazon groups to solve security challenges at massive scale relating to authentication and access control. We enable trust by building an internal authentication platform that meets the security goals of our customers, from compliance to analysis. We dive deep into security technologies such as new authentication systems, hardware security components, cryptography, system hardening, and massive-scale audit analysis.

Our team is looking for a highly curious software and systems professionals to join us and help us continue to raise the security bar for cloud computing. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about delivering results. You should be passionate about solving security hurdles in innovative ways. We do not desire to simply produce good software here at AWS Security, we want to produce disruptive, history changing innovations.

Amazon has a fast-paced environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.” A typical day on our team involves working with users to design new security features, prototyping and demonstrating features to your users, deploying software through our large automated systems, and operationally supporting newly deployed software. The team looks for radical new approaches to automate fixes for operational issues, works with AWS services to solve design problems, and interacts with AWS teams to integrate applications.

You'll be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

About Us

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 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, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. 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.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.


Key job responsibilities
We work across the company on services that are always-on; the company depends on us. To perform our best, we value work/life harmony, flexible schedules, and unscheduled time to brain storm. We support established and rapidly growing services, with a DevOps model. Our challenges and goals are ambitious, often ambiguous, and we sometimes try things that don’t work. We embrace the learnings from failure and iterate quickly. We emphasize shipping rapidly, using automated releases and testing to deploy frequently, and deeply root causing issues to ensure that we stay fast. Almost all of our team works from home these days, but typically we are together in the office collaborating around a whiteboard, planning over coffee, or playing a video game during downtime.

A day in the life
As a Sr. Software Development Manager it starts with building a high performing team. You are responsible for the software architecture, development, operations, and strategic direction of the team.

About the team
You’ll love this team if you are passionate about security, and curious how we design security into the cloud and Amazon infrastructure from the minute a server hits our data center through how we securely administer and operate services. At Amazon, we are looking for leaders who know how to think through a problem, be creative, and who think outside the box in ways that benefit our customers. The intense focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – it is part of our company DNA. We are obsessed with customer trust, building solutions that address real world risks, and thinking deeply about how humans use security systems to build elegant security that users love to use. We are looking for people who bring diverse perspectives, ask a lot of questions, and challenge the status quo. We are a team of out-of-the-box thinkers, who iterate quickly, and think deeply about how to build secure systems that are easy to use.
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Windows Client Engineer, dnolton excl AI2

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. Herndon, VA
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Region Services Corporate Infrastructure (RSCI) is looking for an experienced Windows Client Systems Engineer with a deep knowledge of Windows desktop services, including virtual desktops and infrastructure. Our mission is to deliver robust, highly available, and easy to use services to our internal customers in support of the Amazon Dedicated Cloud for U.S. Government customers. We are looking for a motivated engineer to deliver results for our customers. This is a hands-on position where your daily role will maintain and enhance existing services, including Windows build / deployment capabilities, fulfilling requests for application packaging / deployment and break / fix scenarios for all technologies the team manages. This role will work closely with the Security Compliance team to ensure security compliance with all desktop environments.

You will have a strong and diverse technical background that allows you to approach problems with confidence and ingenuity. You must be a “lifelong learner”, embracing the rapid innovations in technology and understanding how to leverage them to continue to improve our products. A successful Windows Client Engineer will drive the design and implementation of new services, find ways to improve and automate our existing services, and provide escalation and mentoring for junior team members.

This position available onsite at Herndon, VA., Arlington, VA., Denver, CO., Seattle, WA., and Maryland.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain, or be eligible to obtain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.



Key job responsibilities
*Provide first line of support to the IT Service Desk Team
*Maintain Desktop OS Images/VDI templates
*Client patching
*Security compliance to include hardening the OS and desktop applications.
*Manage desktop metrics and monitoring services.
*Creates and updates system documentation for engineering, operations, and support teams.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Herndon, VA, USA
Full-time
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ADC Engineer II, ADC - Route 53

Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. Herndon, VA
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Would you like to implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the world's most complex technical problems? Do you have a deep passion and desire to engineer and operate the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure to build a better world for future generations?

This is an exciting opportunity to use the latest cloud computing technologies to help U.S. Government agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems.

AWS established a specialized group of service teams responsible for the work we are doing with the U.S. Intelligence Community. We are building some of the largest and most complex distributed systems in the world, and we need adaptable people to help us implement and operate them.

The AWS Intelligence team is seeking highly motivated engineers who are focused on operational excellence and troubleshooting complex system operations, have a good understanding of Linux, networking and general knowledge of cloud services. We need engineers who understand how to think big, and simplify solutions to complex problems; all the while ensuring that our customers continue to have the best experience possible.

On a "typical" day, our engineers may dive deep to find the root cause of a customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending in the wrong direction, or discuss radical new approaches to automate operational processes. As a member of our team you will join a dedicated group of engineers who provide troubleshooting and operations support, and innovate to automate operational tasks.

You will be able to take a defined project, break down the work to help define milestones, and feedback mechanisms. You identify when implementations are not highly available or have defects; you investigate systemic patterns. You resolve, mitigate, or escalate operational concerns in a timely manner

We are committed to supporting our new team members through a broad mix of Amazon experience, expertise, and tenures. We celebrate knowledge, sharing, and mentorship.

This position can be located in Arlington, VA; Herndon, VA or Denver. CO.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $105,200/[yr] in our lowest geographic market up to $167,400/[yr] 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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an
environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based
on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the
future.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have twelve employee-led affinity
groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing
learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. 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.

Work/Life Balance
Our team also puts a high value on work/life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to
your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy
to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Key job responsibilities
Ensure Route 53 is able to offer customers a fast change propagation and 100% uptime SLA. We do this through deploying software, troubleshooting software failures, and minimizing the need for human involvements through automation such as infrastructure as code and operator tools.

A day in the life
It’s always Day 1 at Amazon. On a typical day, a Route 53 ADC Engineer manages and monitors systems in air-gapped regions. This would involve deep diving anomalies, addressing scaling needs, and using this data to ensure our services maintain a 100% uptime SLA! We do all this through existing tools and when required, we build or update tools typically written in Python or Ruby. The most exciting part of this role is working to deploy and build the latest Route 53 features and software releases for our air-gapped customers.
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Security Engineer, AWS Security, Vulnerability Management

Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. Herndon, VA
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This position is located in Herndon, VA. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a passionate, innovative, and motivated Security Engineer for the AWS Security Vulnerability Management team. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is job zero. Our team is responsible for inventing new security services that enable and automate security solutions at AWS’ unprecedented scale. We are data-driven, set big goals, and are always challenging ourselves raise the security bar at AWS.

In this role, you will be part of a team of security engineers solving complex security challenges that have direct and measurable impact on our customers. Our programs stretch across all of AWS, giving you the opportunity to interact with product teams, industry specialists, security partners, and organization leaders. You will build and own software solutions and solve ambiguous technical problems.

This role can be located in Seattle WA, Herndon or Arlington, VA.

Key job responsibilities
Build and implement solutions to identify software based risks in AWS services.
Perform vulnerability and impact assessments taking into account base, temporal, and environmental factors.
Query, analyze, and report on large datasets.
Work with a team of software and security engineers that design, build, and own software solutions that solve complex security challenges for AWS and our customers.
Diving into large datasets to identify potential risks.
Perform severity assessments of software vulnerabilities.
Work with software builders to apply environmental context against findings to adjust risk scores.
Implement automation to improve operational throughput and efficiency.
Work with partner teams to propose and implement functionality to reduce risks at scale

About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 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, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. 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.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
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Software Development Engineer, AWS Security Gatekeepers

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. Herndon, VA
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This job is located in Herndon, VA. Each day, hundreds of thousands of developers make billions of transactions worldwide on our cloud. They harness the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable innovative applications, websites, and businesses. The AWS Security team owns security for all of these services offered by AWS, including EC2, S3, and many others. Our team works with the many AWS teams to solve security challenges at massive scale. We enable the trust by building services that meet the security goals of our customers, from compliance to analysis. We dive deep into security technologies such as new authentication systems, hardware security components, cryptography, system hardening, and massive-scale audit analysis.

Our team is looking for software and systems professionals to join us and help us continue to raise the security bar for cloud computing. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about delivering results. You should be passionate about solving security hurdles in innovative ways. We do not desire to simply produce good software here at AWS Security... we want to produce disruptive, history changing innovations.

Amazon has a fast-paced environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.” A typical day on our team involves working with users to design new security features, prototyping and demonstrating features to your users, deploying software through our large automated systems, and operationally supporting your newly deployed software. You are looking for radical new approaches to automate fixes for operational issues. You get to use AWS services to solve design problems. You get to interact with AWS teams to integrate your application with theirs. You'll be part of a world-class team and surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success.



Key job responsibilities
Our team supports the internal infrastructure of Amazon. The candidate must be customer-obsessed and be mindful of the need for our services to be highly available. The best candidates will be familiar with Java and Kotlin, and have knowledge of authorization and authentication in Linux.

A day in the life
On a typical day, the developer promotes improving security at Amazon. This could manifest itself in different ways: new service development, feature development, mentoring, problem-solving, or operations. Our technology is tied to our customers, the employees of Amazon, and a large component of the job is working backwards from their needs.

About the team

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth as a passionate learner that is motivated to take on challenges.

Work/Life Balance
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well balanced life—both in and outside of work.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Herndon, VA, USA
Full-time
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