Cloud Systems Engineering Manager (Security & Automation)

Amazon; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Systems Engineering Manager in Melbourne to lead engineering teams responsible for secure cloud infrastructure and high‑performing operations. You will drive delivery, mentorship, and automation while collaborating with product teams to meet ambitious customer goals.

The role emphasizes operational excellence, incident management, and scalable architecture across Compute, ML, Security, and Storage domains.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on systems engineering and administrative work in networking, storage systems, operating systems experience
• 3+ years of systems engineering and operations leadership for an Internet service or leading edge IT organization experience
• Experience building and managing teams

Responsibilities

• Identify Builder operational pain points from disparate data and drive actions to resolve them.
• Know when to create a solution vs. improving existing tools.
• Hire and develop the best engineers by leveraging your technical ability to identify outcomes, design project plans, and drive the right actions to build the team’s technical acumen.
• Collaborate and learn from world-class leaders to meet world-class challenges, every day.
• Hire, train, and grow new AWS engineers.
• Drive continual improvement in systems operations through tool building and automation.
• Drive root cause analyses with software teams and influence local development to improve performance.
• Report on the health of these services at an executive level.
• Meet with internal and external customers to develop relationships and clarify requirements and schedules.
• Work in an environment where operational excellence is the first priority and automation is high.
• Participating in 24/7 on-call rotation to troubleshoot high severity issues

Skills

Engineering management

Systems engineering

Distributed systems

Networking

Storage

Leadership

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Systems Engineering Manager in Melbourne to lead engineering teams responsible for secure cloud infrastructure and high‑performing operations. You will drive delivery, mentorship, and automation while collaborating with product teams to meet ambitious customer goals.

The role emphasizes operational excellence, incident management, and scalable architecture across Compute, ML, Security, and Storage domains.