Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control : This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. Citizen in order to comply with U.S. government-imposed requirements related to the nature of the work and/or where it will be performed.

In this role you will be a key member of the team providing the tools and systems needed to design, build, and operate the organization’s services. You will own and operate infrastructure critical to Project Kuiper including engineering applications, AWS Cloud Infrastructure, and local servers. Our ideal candidate is highly autonomous, possesses strong written and verbal communication skills, strong project management and time management skills and has a successful track record of delivering large-scale engineering projects. The desire and ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment is essential.

Key job responsibilities
- Design build and maintain infrastructure as code for our hybrid-cloud Siemens engineering applications
- Monitor system performance, ensuring uptime, scalability, and reliability of applications and Infrastructure
- Analyze current infrastructure capacity and forecast future needs to support organizational growth.
- Day to day support of existing Siemens applications on AWS and on-premise
- Automate Siemens deployment and administration of Siemens engineering tools
- Drive an environment of continuous improvement and operational excellence,
- Anticipate bottlenecks, make trade-offs, and encourage risk-taking to maximize business benefit
- Actively participate in Agile/Scrum development processes, contributing to sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospective meetings

A day in the life
This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's world class technical team working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative programs. As a Senior Systems Development Engineer on the team, you will be counted on to define and apply the standards for engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices for your team.


About the team
As part of Kuiper Enterprise Technology team you will further deepen your technical expertise and proficiency in systems design, navigate operational challenges of a highly available system under load, and hone your skills as a leader and communicator. You will collaborate with and learn from some of the strongest software, security, and infrastructure engineers in the industry, and leverage Amazon's ample resources to innovate on behalf of our customers.