Engineering Leader, AWS Region Services & Automation

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Melbourne; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Support Services Pty Ltd in Melbourne is seeking an engineering leader to drive operational excellence for Australia’s leading cloud programme. You will design tooling, scale systems, and mentor engineers to deliver high-availability services powering national security workflows.

You will hire and develop teams, collaborate with stakeholders, and own monitoring, incidentresponse, and on-call processes to ensure mission-critical reliability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of server, storage, networking, or large-scale distributed systems experience.
• 5+ years of managing system or software development teams experience.
• Experience hiring, developing, and mentoring engineering teams with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational heartbeat of one of Australia's most ambitious cloud programmes.
• Design and deploy operational tooling that eliminates toil and automates workflows.
• Hire, develop, and mentor engineers, shaping careers and building scalable services.
• Diagnose complex issues across interconnected systems and deliver reliable resolutions.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to ensure high availability and security.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership and mentoring

Hiring and team development

Security clearance process

Tools

AWS

Networking

Job description

Amazon Support Services Pty Ltd in Melbourne is seeking an engineering leader to drive operational excellence for Australia’s leading cloud programme. You will design tooling, scale systems, and mentor engineers to deliver high-availability services powering national security workflows.

You will hire and develop teams, collaborate with stakeholders, and own monitoring, incidentresponse, and on-call processes to ensure mission-critical reliability.