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Systems Development Manager, Region Services

Amazon· Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
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Hybrid (Sydney), Hybrid (Melbourne)Full-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Engineering leadership role within AWS Region Services focused on building automation, tooling, and systems to support large-scale regional workloads in Australia, with emphasis on operational excellence, reliability, and national security impact.

Responsibilities

  • Own the operational heartbeat of one of Australia's most ambitious cloud programmes.
  • Design and deploy operational tooling that eliminates toil and automates manual processes.
  • Hire, develop, and mentor engineers; pair with colleagues to build and manage services at extraordinary scale.
  • Diagnose complex issues across interconnected systems and deliver resolutions to restore confidence.
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for high-severity incidents.
  • Maintain and improve service health dashboards; implement monitoring and automation.
  • Review pull requests, provide feedback, and manage team Agile boards.
  • Collaborate with distributed systems architects on scaling challenges (DNS, network topology).
  • Mentor newer team members and contribute to cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of server, storage, networking, or large-scale distributed systems experience
  • 5+ years of managing system or software development teams experience
  • Experience hiring, developing, and mentoring engineering teams while partnering with product/programme stakeholders to deliver against roadmap commitments

Skills

Required:Distributed systems engineeringLeadership / people managementHiring and mentoring engineering teams
Nice to have:Operational excellence / monitoringCustomer/stakeholder collaboration
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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