DNS Systems Engineer - Sovereign Cloud & Automation

Amazon; Australia; Remote; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AWS training

Health insurance

Military pay

EAP

Family-building

Employee discounts

Job summary

Amazon Australia is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to own Route 53 DNS infrastructure within our sovereign cloud initiative. You will design and deploy latency-based routing, Private DNS, and Geo DNS while driving operational excellence at scale.

You will write automation, integrate with a broad AWS ecosystem, and mentor teammates. Melbourne or Sydney bases are supported, with a strong focus on reliability and security across a large, global platform.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of DNS, HTTP(S) and networking basics.
• Experience with automation and scripting for ops tasks.
• Linux and network troubleshooting in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the full engineering lifecycle of Route 53 DNS infrastructure.
• Design and implement DNS solutions leveraging latency-based routing, Private DNS, Geo DNS, and failover.
• Write production-quality code and build automation that accelerates changes.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure seamless interoperability within AWS.
• Drive incident response, runbooks, and reliability improvements; mentor teammates.

Skills

DNS & Networking

HTTP(S)

TCP/IP

Scripting (Python)

Automation

Linux

CI/CD

Monitoring

Debugging

Cloud concepts

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Amazon Australia is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to own Route 53 DNS infrastructure within our sovereign cloud initiative. You will design and deploy latency-based routing, Private DNS, and Geo DNS while driving operational excellence at scale.

You will write automation, integrate with a broad AWS ecosystem, and mentor teammates. Melbourne or Sydney bases are supported, with a strong focus on reliability and security across a large, global platform.