2 months ago
Sydney, Australia +2 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Route 53 DNS solutions using latency-based routing, Private DNS, Geo DNS, health checks, and failover architectures.
- Write production-quality automation, monitoring, and operational tooling to improve DNS change propagation and team effectiveness.
- Integrate Route 53 with the broader AWS ecosystem and participate in architectural reviews and cross-team technical sessions.
- Build runbooks, lead incident response, perform root-cause analysis, and improve system reliability and operational excellence.
- Review code, mentor teammates, and contribute to engineering standards and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Australian citizenship and eligibility to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance, including successful completion of an Organisational Suitability Assessment.
- Knowledge of networking protocols including HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP.
- Experience with automation or scripting languages such as Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Bash, Shell, or equivalent.
- Experience with Linux operating systems and troubleshooting across application, network, and host layers.
- Operations experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems such as Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent.
- Preferred: experience designing maintainable, scalable, and secure operational scripts and reviewing scripting changes.
- Preferred: experience in a 24/7 production environment and with service-oriented architecture and web services.
Benefits
- AWS training, certification support, and access to internal learning platforms.
- Subsidised private health insurance, group salary continuance, and life insurance at no cost.
- Up to 52 weeks of military differential pay for eligible Australian employees taking defence reserve leave.
- Free 24/7 Employee Assistance Program covering mental health, financial coaching, legal questions, and everyday life support.
- Family-building support through Maven, including fertility treatment, adoption, surrogacy, and parenting coaching.
- Amazon Extras and employee discounts across retail, fitness, travel, and lifestyle partners.
- Strictly Melbourne or Sydney based, with interstate relocation support.
- AWS work-life flexibility, inclusion programs, mentorship, and career-growth resources.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.