SRE: AWS Incident Response Leader

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

Job summary

Amazon Web Services in Sydney is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the AWS Incident Response Team. You will lead high‑severity incident calls, triage failures across distributed systems, and coordinate resolver teams to drive mitigation in real time.

You will build dashboards, surface problems before customers notice, and drive automation to reduce toil. The role includes on‑call rotations and opportunities to grow development skills while owning end‑to‑end operational processes across

Qualifications

• Experience in site reliability engineering or related roles.
• Strong scripting ability and exposure to automation.
• Solid knowledge of Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
• Proven troubleshooting of complex multi-system problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead high‑severity incident response calls end to end.
• Own operational dashboards and monitoring.
• Improve detection accuracy and incident response speed.
• Analyze operational data to identify systemic issues.
• Develop automation to reduce toil and time to mitigate.

Skills

SRE experience

Scripting (Bash / Python)

Linux knowledge

Networking fundamentals

Distributed systems

Tools

CDK / CloudFormation

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Amazon Web Services in Sydney is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the AWS Incident Response Team. You will lead high‑severity incident calls, triage failures across distributed systems, and coordinate resolver teams to drive mitigation in real time.

You will build dashboards, surface problems before customers notice, and drive automation to reduce toil. The role includes on‑call rotations and opportunities to grow development skills while owning end‑to‑end operational processes across