Applicants must be Australian citizens and hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance with the ability to successfully complete an Organisational Suitability Assessment. For more information regarding security clearances please visit (https://www.agsva.gov.au/).
The AWS Region Services team combines AWS global cloud leadership with Australian security expertise to deliver highly secure, scalable environments for sensitive workloads. We’re creating innovative ways to use cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning while maintaining the highest standards of security and operational excellence.
The Engineering organisation within Region Services is structured across core capability pillars: Compute & Machine Learning, Security Identity & Compliance, Storage & Databases, and a growing capability domain. Collectively these pillars encompass a team of varying technical skillsets, including Engineers; Technical Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts, organised into focused sub-teams.
This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on Australia’s digital future. You’ll work with AWS services, implement innovative solutions, and help customers succeed in their most important missions. We’re committed to helping our builders grow through continuous learning, mentoring, and collaboration with industry experts. Are you ready to build the future of secure cloud computing in Australia?
Key job responsibilities
- Define, build, own, and run services in high growth environments
- Solve unique and first-order problems in massive-scale areas such as compute services, DynamoDB/NoSQL databases, Glacier, S3 data lakes and many other AWS Services
- Learn how to build and operate distributed systems at massive scale
- Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services
A day in the life You'll own services end-to-end in one of the fastest-growing cloud environments in the world. This means defining how they're built, building them with care, operating them with pride, and running them with the reliability that the security community demands. Ownership here is real — these are your services, and their success is your success.
You'll solve problems that are genuinely unique. These aren't issues with known solutions waiting to be searched— they're first-order challenges in massive-scale domains. Compute services processing workloads at extraordinary volume. DynamoDB and NoSQL databases operating at throughputs that test the boundaries of distributed systems theory. Glacier and S3 data lakes managing data at a scale that few engineers ever encounter. Each problem you crack builds expertise that sets you apart.
You'll learn how to build and operate distributed systems on a massive scale — not through theory alone, but through hands-on experience with production systems that matter. You'll develop an intuition for how large-scale systems behave, how they fail, and how to make them resilient. This knowledge compounds rapidly, accelerating your growth into a world-class systems engineer.
And you'll build the tools that make it all possible. The utilities and automation that form part of the AWS fleet running internal services will bear your fingerprints. You'll influence how the team operates, how services are managed, and how the platform evolves — contributing ideas and code that improve the experience for every engineer who follows.
About the team Region Services provides the highest caliber Operational Solutions and Cleared Support for services within our Regions. We provide 'hands on keyboard' support to our service teams by deploying changes into these isolated regions, monitoring the results, and reporting any issues that are observed.
Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
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Basic Qualifications
- Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems
- Experience in supporting procedures and methodologies for production computing environments
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery
- Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Perl)
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience using tools to create, manage, and publish documentation
Acknowledgement of country: In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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