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.
For more information, reach out to Christine Price at prcch@amazon.com
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