AddressAre you interested in developing engineers and delivering automation to drive service transformation for the world’s most customer obsessed company?
At AWS Networking, we run one of the largest and most complex enterprise networks in the world. The AWS Enterprise Networking org enables the connectivity needs for hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees and AWS data center corporate customers around the world. This organisation develops and operates the platform that Amazon's businesses rely on to grow and scale by leveraging AWS Cloud Infrastructure where-ever possible.
We are looking for a Systems Engineering Manager to help us grow our team. Our goal is to build systems that eliminate human intervention and errors; provide actionable insights in to network impairments and look for innovative ways to automate and scale our network as we expand. In this role, you will manage a team of 6-8 software and Systems Development engineers to develop and improve systems and automation needs across a complex and interconnected tool ecosystem, enabling networking teams to operate and scale the network safely.
Collectively working with adjacent teams and customers, your team will design, implement, and evolve the systems and automation that provide foundational services and deployment automation for the network. Your team will continuously identify areas of growth within the existing frameworks, tools, and processes to develop technical mechanisms to reduce waste and continuously improve. By reporting into the backbone organization, you will be empowered to make significant impact and improvement to our overall operational excellence.
Key job responsibilities
- Drive continual improvement in systems operations through tool building and iterative improvement.
- Define and drive projects that improve efficiency in day-to-day tasks (or automate them away completely), identifying key metrics that reflect the success of those projects, and reporting on their progress.
- Establish strong relationships with stakeholders and customers to understand and meet their need, clarify requirements, and collaboratively develop designs from ambiguous or nebulous problems at wide scale.
- Manage a highly technical team, and develop a deep knowledge of your area in order to propose new designs for wider review.
- Develop and maintain a culture of innovation and operational efficiency in the team.
- Hiring, growing and retaining engineering team keeping up with the high Amazon bar. This leader will be responsible for continuing to build an extremely high caliber team.
- A successful candidate will be a hands-on manager with an established background in developing and operating platforms and services, developing and hiring extraordinary talent, have strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a dynamic fast paced environment.
A day in the life
Managers in the Backbone Enterprise and Regional Engineering (BERE) organization have a wide range of responsibilities: we work with internal partners to develop and implement the next gen platforms along with the tooling ecosystems to support with these platforms driving efficiency and scalability through the automation of builds, configuration deployment, and the scaling of capacity. As our network is one of the largest in the world, there is no blue print at our scale allowing our engineers to develop solutions to the complex challenges that we face daily. We encourage durable solutions that look around corners while taking into consideration our customer needs from a cost, performance, and reliability perspective. Our team develops tooling that provides the required visibility and control of traffic across the network, while prioritizing the automatic mitigation of events to minimize the impact to our customers during events.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Sydney, NSW, AUS
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or five or more years of work experience in System development as an equivalent.
- 5 or more years of people management experience leading System development teams.
- Proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Java, C/C++, C#, Objective C, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and Go.
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or web services.
- Experience in managing large scale infrastructure and automation
- Experience engaging and influencing senior executives using both verbal and written communication tools
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Experience developing in Python for similar modern programming language, such as C++, Java, C#, or Ruby.
- Strong systems engineering fundamentals (networking, scripting, UI frameworks, data models, or operating systems.)
- Experience managing staff and meetings across multiple sites and time zones.
- Experience interacting with, and influencing, technical leaders at all levels.
- Experience defining, contributing, and supporting long-term visions and directions.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Experience with distributed systems at scale.
- Experience with Agile engineering practices (Kanban, continuous delivery, etc.)
- Experience using AWS is a plus.
- Minimum 5 years as the Systems Engineering/DevOps leader in a management role.
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.
