Systems Engineering Manager

Amazon; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Systems Engineering Manager in Melbourne to lead engineering teams responsible for secure cloud infrastructure and high‑performing operations. You will drive delivery, mentorship, and automation while collaborating with product teams to meet ambitious customer goals.

The role emphasizes operational excellence, incident management, and scalable architecture across Compute, ML, Security, and Storage domains.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on systems engineering and administrative work in networking, storage systems, operating systems experience
• 3+ years of systems engineering and operations leadership for an Internet service or leading edge IT organization experience
• Experience building and managing teams

Responsibilities

• Identify Builder operational pain points from disparate data and drive actions to resolve them.
• Know when to create a solution vs. improving existing tools.
• Hire and develop the best engineers by leveraging your technical ability to identify outcomes, design project plans, and drive the right actions to build the team’s technical acumen.
• Collaborate and learn from world-class leaders to meet world-class challenges, every day.
• Hire, train, and grow new AWS engineers.
• Drive continual improvement in systems operations through tool building and automation.
• Drive root cause analyses with software teams and influence local development to improve performance.
• Report on the health of these services at an executive level.
• Meet with internal and external customers to develop relationships and clarify requirements and schedules.
• Work in an environment where operational excellence is the first priority and automation is high.
• Participating in 24/7 on-call rotation to troubleshoot high severity issues

Skills

Engineering management

Systems engineering

Distributed systems

Networking

Storage

Leadership

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.

This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on Australia’s digital future. You’ll work with AWS services, implement innovative solutions, and help customers succeed in their most important missions. We’re committed to helping our builders grow through continuous learning, mentoring, and collaboration with industry experts. Are you ready to build the future of secure cloud computing in Australia?

Key job responsibilities

• Identify Builder operational pain points from disparate data and drive actions to resolve them. Examples include: creation, improvement, simplification, and elimination of processes
• Knowing when to create a solution vs. improving existing tools
• Hire and Develop the Best Engineers at AWS by leveraging your technical ability to identify outcomes, design project plans, and drive the right actions to build the technical acumen on the team
• Collaborate and learn from world-class leaders to meet world-class challenges, every day
• Hire, train, and grow new AWS engineers
• Drive continual improvement in systems operations through tool building and automation
• Drive root cause analyses, in collaboration with software development teams, as well as influencing local development to improve operational performance
• Report on the health of these services at an executive level
• Meet with internal and external customers to develop relationships and clarify requirements and schedules
• Work in an environment where operational excellence is truly the first priority, and where the degree of automation is above bar
• Participating in 24/7 on-call rotation to troubleshoot high severity issues

A day in the life

We are looking for a passionate Systems Engineering Manager ready to solve the world's most complex technical challenges through innovative cloud computing solutions. The ideal candidate will combine technical expertise with strong leadership abilities to drive innovation and operational excellence when designing, implementing, and maintaining solutions.

In this role, you will collaborate with Product Teams to design solutions that make efficient use of resources and technologies. You will bring a detail-oriented approach and excellent problem-solving abilities, backed by a deep understanding of distributed system design and delivery. Your contributions will leverage cross-functional business and technical skills, assessing and managing risks, measuring and reporting on progress, anticipating and resolving bottlenecks, providing escalation management, making tradeoffs, and balancing business needs with technical constraints.

You will drive engineering deliverables through influence rather than authority, manage repair requests in a high-volume environment, and respond to high-severity events. Regular presentations to senior leadership will require you to synthesize problems and solutions into a simple and consumable manner. Additionally, you will be responsible for data collection, analytics, and dashboard creation to help others identify the best paths for business improvement.

About the team

The Region Services team redefines the way AWS designs, builds, and operates AWS regions to enable new AWS Cloud Infrastructure and Services offerings to customers across every industry and of every size, including start‑ups, enterprises, and public sector organizations.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of relevant hands‑on systems engineering and administrative work in networking, storage systems, operating systems experience
• 3+ years of systems engineering and operations leadership for an Internet service or leading edge IT organization experience
• Experience building and managing teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
• Experience leading development life cycle processes and best practices, especially in the areas of deployment automation and monitoring
• 5+ years of distributed systems experience

Acknowledgement of country

In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.