Senior Cloud Systems & Automation Lead – Region Services

Amazon Inc.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking an engineering leader to drive operational excellence for Australia’s most ambitious cloud programme.

You will architect automation, tooling, and systems that keep sensitive workloads running flawlessly, while mentoring engineers and shaping scalable, reliable services used by analysts and decision-makers. You will lead a team responsible for design reviews, monitoring improvements, and on-call incident response, ensuring service health and rapid resolutions across the

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 while partnering with product/programme stakeholders to deliver against roadmap commitments.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational heartbeat of one of Australia's most ambitious cloud programmes.
• Design and deploy operational tooling to automate manual processes.
• Hire, develop, and mentor engineers around you.
• Diagnose complex issues across interconnected systems and deliver resolutions to restore confidence.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to maintain reliability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Cloud engineering

Automation

On-call incident response

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Linux

CI/CD

Job description

Amazon Inc. is seeking an engineering leader to drive operational excellence for Australia’s most ambitious cloud programme.

You will architect automation, tooling, and systems that keep sensitive workloads running flawlessly, while mentoring engineers and shaping scalable, reliable services used by analysts and decision-makers. You will lead a team responsible for design reviews, monitoring improvements, and on-call incident response, ensuring service health and rapid resolutions across the