Amazon Web Service is building some of the largest distributed systems in the world, and offering them to our peculiar Dedicated Cloud customers. Amazon's database offerings like Athena, OpenSearch, Elastic Map Reduce, Glue, QuickSight, LakeFormation, and Redshift are massively scaled services that make up a critical piece of the internet today.

This is an excellent opportunity for you to join Amazon's world class technical team in either Denver, CO or Herndon, VA. You will be working with some of the best and brightest engineers and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret 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.

Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate will have deep experience working with Linux, preferably in a large scale, distributed environment. You understand networking technology and how servers and networks inter-relate. You regularly take part in deep-dive troubleshooting and conduct technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues.

Love to code. Whether its building tools in Java or solving complex system problems in Python, the ideal candidate will love using technology to solve problems. You have a solid understanding of software development methodology and know how to use the right tool for the right job.

Think Big. The ideal candidate will build and deploy solutions across thousands of devices. You will strive to improve and streamline processes to allow for work on a massive scale.

About the team
The ADC Analytics and Big Data Services team consists of a mix of Systems Engineers, System Development Engineers, and Software Engineers. We take our company credo to heart: "Work hard. Have fun. Make history". We love what they do and instinctively know how to make work fun.

We are pioneers in the arena of mechanistic improvement for the burdens associated with designing, deploying, and operating a managed service. The tools and services we build are tools that engineers want to use, instead of just being required to use.