Systems Dev Engineer, AWS Security, US ADC Security Engineering

Passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems? Experienced in building and leading teams of highly competent systems development engineers? Want to make a billion-dollar impact? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you. We are looking for a Systems Development Engineer to join our team supporting our Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform (Biblios) as well as aid in the development of new tooling and automation efforts across our organization.

Key job responsibilities:

• Design, build, and implement data ingestion, enrichment, and correlation components with AWS Services that can achieve Amazon scale.
• Quickly adopt and learn new software platforms and CI/CD tool chains.
• Operate within the team of peer Systems Development engineers with little direct oversight to solve complex engineer scaling issues.
• Provide guidance on system architecture and recommend solutions in alignment with systems engineering best practices.
• Calmly and quickly diagnose and fix critical system failures in high pressure situations to reduce Mean Time to Failure (MTTR)
• Leverage DevOps techniques to Engineer Operational Improvements in systems and tools that reduce operational efforts to Keep the Lights On.

We are huge advocates for using public AWS services to build our platform, including CloudFormation, CodeDeploy, and Lambda.

About the team: We're an agile, independent team working to meet the demanding needs for our AWS Security engineers. We need developers who are capable of breaking down and solving complex big-data problems. Our team is tasked with protecting the AWS infrastructure that is used by our national security customers. You'll work side-by-side with our security engineers to build, extend, deploy, and maintain the security information and event management (SIEM) platform they use every day.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess an active Secret security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and satisfy other security related requirements.