Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud service provider, providing virtualised infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world, including government customers. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale. Businesses, from start-ups to enterprises to large government customers, run their operations and applications on AWS’ highly secure infrastructure.

Are you a technology enthusiast and interested in delivering critical services at AWS? We have an opportunity for a System Engineer in the AWS Security organization, and are looking for a technical contributor who is ready to transform AWS’ capability in delivery security services.

Key job responsibilities

• Be a technical contributor for your team.

• Look for opportunites to automate and scale using tooling and scripting.

• Work efficiently and routinely deliver the right things with limited guidance.

• Focus on ambiguous problem areas in existing or new development initiatives.

• Take a long term view of your team’s systems and how they fit into the architecture.

• Proactively fix operational deficiencies and/or propose projects that have significant business and/or customer impact, which may require the work of your team.

• Be an exceptional diagnostician when resolving operational or performance issues encountered in your team’s systems.

Hold or be able to attain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency clearance (see https://www.agsva.gov.au/applicants/eligibility-and-suitability)

A day in the life

• Understand the business impact of your systems and show good judgment when making technical trade-offs between your team’s short-term technology or operational needs and long-term business needs.

• Contribute in mindful discussions with customers and peers.

• Bring perspective and provide context for current technology choices and guide future technology choices.

• Collaborating with the security team to determine automation needs and deliver to this needs.

• Evaluate existing tooling and scripting for effectivenes and seek opportunties to ehance.

About the team

The team is comprised of security professionals with a cross section of national security and private sector experience, providing a range of perspectives required for creative problem solving. We value diversity of thought, creativity, and a strong Bias for Action and Earn Trust. We believe that there are no "perfect" security solutions and we develop and iterate using a continuous improvement process.

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure

• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust

• Experience with Linux/Unix

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems at scale

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 committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.