DNS Systems Engineer — Route 53 & Global Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS); City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Support Services Pty Ltd in Melbourne is seeking a Systems Engineer to join the Region Services team. You will help design, build, and operate cloud regions and related networking, security controls, and automation for Australia’s sovereign cloud initiative.

You will work on latency-based routing, Private DNS, Geo DNS, and failover mechanisms across 50+ locations, ensuring high reliability while enabling new services for government and enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of contributing to automation for new and current system experience.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience operating 24x7 high-availability, distributed software applications and performance tuning software applications and optimizing fleet utilization
• Understanding of network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, load balancing) and experience with monitoring frameworks like CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic
• Experience scripting operating system tasks in Bash, Python, etc. and with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible)

Responsibilities

• Support the refinement of system requirements and participate in the development and delivery of operability-related features such as system health monitoring, diagnostics, repair, and other self-healing automation
• Develop or further existing application and system management tools and processes that reduce manual efforts and increase overall efficiency
• Adapt and improve operations management systems and processes to accommodate rapid and increasing growth in systems and traffic
• Participate in the design and execution of production acceptance tests and new hardware evaluations
• Monitor the health of the fleet, automating system health, maintenance tasks, and reporting systems as needed
• Participate in “on-call” rotations to resolve incidents occurring out-of-hours.

Skills

Automation experience

Python

Ruby

Golang

Java

C++

C#

Rust

Linux/Unix

Tools

CloudWatch

Datadog

Grafana

Elastic

Job description

Amazon Support Services Pty Ltd in Melbourne is seeking a Systems Engineer to join the Region Services team. You will help design, build, and operate cloud regions and related networking, security controls, and automation for Australia’s sovereign cloud initiative.

You will work on latency-based routing, Private DNS, Geo DNS, and failover mechanisms across 50+ locations, ensuring high reliability while enabling new services for government and enterprise customers.