Systems Development Engineer (AWS)

Amazon; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Melbourne is seeking engineers to automate operations, monitor system health, and build tools to reduce manual work. You will contribute to 24x7 reliability and participate in on-call rotations for incident response, while expanding capabilities across Compute, Security, and Networking domains.

The role focuses on improving operability, tooling, and automation in a rapidly growing AWS Region Services team, with opportunities to influence production readiness and efficiency.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of automation experience for systems.
• Proficiency in at least one modern language (Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust).
• Experience with Linux/Unix.

Responsibilities

• Refine system requirements and help deliver operability features and self-healing automation.
• Develop and improve tooling to reduce manual work and increase efficiency.
• Improve operations processes to scale with growth.
• Design and run production acceptance tests and hardware evaluations.
• Monitor fleet health, automate maintenance tasks and reporting.
• Participate in on-call rotations to resolve incidents outside hours.

Skills

Automation experience

Programming languages

Linux/Unix

Tools

CloudWatch

Datadog

Grafana

Elastic

CDK

CloudFormation

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Job description

Applicants must be Australian citizens and hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance with the ability to successfully complete an Organisational Suitability Assessment. For more information regarding security clearances please visit https://www.agsva.gov.au/.

The AWS Region Services team combines AWS global cloud leadership with Australian security expertise to deliver highly secure, scalable environments for sensitive workloads. We’re creating innovative ways to use cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning while maintaining the highest standards of security and operational excellence.

The Engineering organisation within Region Services is structured across core capability pillars: Compute & Machine Learning, Security Identity & Compliance, Storage & Databases, and a growing capability domain. Collectively these pillars encompass a team of varying technical skillsets, including Engineers; Technical Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts, organised into focused sub-teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the refinement of system requirements, participate in the development and delivery of operability-related features such as system health monitoring, diagnostics, repair, and other self-healing automation
• Develop or further existing application and system management tools and processes that reduce manual efforts and increase overall efficiency
• Adapt and improve operations management systems and processes to accommodate rapid and increasing growth in systems and traffic
• Participate in the design and execution of production acceptance tests and new hardware evaluations
• Monitor the health of the fleet, automating system health, maintenance tasks, and reporting systems as needed
• Participate in "on-call" rotations to resolve incidents occurring out-of-hours.

Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of contributing to automation for new and current system experience
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Experience with Linux/Unix

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating 24x7 high-availability, distributed software applications and performance tuning software applications and optimizing fleet utilization
• Understanding of network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, load balancing, load shedding) and experience with monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar)
• Experience scripting operating system tasks in Bash, Python, etc. and with Infrastructure as Code, (such as CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.