Secure Cloud Systems Engineer – Regional Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Australia is seeking an experienced engineer to join its Region Services team. The role focuses on maintaining secure cloud infrastructure, automation, monitoring and improving operational resilience across critical systems.

You will work with Linux administration, infrastructure automation, and on-call incident response to ensure reliable services at scale in secure environments. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Linux/UNIX administration and networking fundamentals.
• 3+ years of CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems (Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Experience with cloud systems and infrastructure automation.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident response experience.
• Experience with IaC tools (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible).
• Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python) for automation.
• Familiarity with monitoring frameworks (CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic).

Responsibilities

• Define hardware and software requirements to support reliability and operational needs.
• Develop and improve system health monitoring, automated repair and self-healing.
• Build and maintain tools to reduce manual work and improve efficiency.
• Automate maintenance, monitoring and reporting tasks across cloud infrastructure.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability and availability.
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotations as needed.

Skills

Linux/UNIX administration

CI/CD pipelines

Troubleshooting

Cloud systems experience

Networking fundamentals

Monitoring and observability

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Bash scripting

Python scripting

Monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic)

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Australia is seeking an experienced engineer to join its Region Services team. The role focuses on maintaining secure cloud infrastructure, automation, monitoring and improving operational resilience across critical systems.

You will work with Linux administration, infrastructure automation, and on-call incident response to ensure reliable services at scale in secure environments. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential.