Systems Development Engineer

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · NSW, Australia +1 · Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering

Systems Development Engineer role within AWS Region Services team, focusing on building and maintaining secure, scalable cloud environments for sensitive workloads in Australia. Responsibilities include defining system requirements, developing operational features like monitoring and self-healing automation, improving operations management systems, and participating in acceptance tests and on-call rotations. Requires Australian citizenship, security clearance, and experience in networking, storage, operating systems, and programming.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and/or refine system requirements, participate in the development and delivery of operability-related features such as system health monitoring, diagnostics, repair, and other self-healing automation
  2. Develop or further existing application and system management tools and processes that reduce manual efforts and increase overall efficiency
  3. Adapt and improve operations management systems and processes to accommodate rapid and increasing growth in systems and traffic
  4. Participate in the design and execution of production acceptance tests and new hardware evaluations
  5. Monitor the health of the fleet, automating system health, maintenance tasks, and reporting systems as needed

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems
  • hands-on systems engineering experience
  • Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
  • Experience with Linux/Unix

Nice to have

  • Experience with distributed systems at scale

What the JD emphasized

  • Australian citizens
  • hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance
  • successfully complete an Organisational Suitability Assessment