Systems Development Manager

The Region Services team is looking for a System Development Manager to support Operations in Australia.

The AWS Region Services team builds and provides operational support for internal tools used by developers across AWS. Our Corporate Systems Development Managers work in a fast-paced environment across many disciplines, collaborating with other AWS teams to deliver cloud services for our customers.

You will be passionate about both development and operations, and have a strong desire to learn about Amazon's development lifecycle. This is a true DevOps role; you will be both allowed and expected to follow problems all the way to the end and work on implementing real solutions, not just quick fixes. You will want to dive deep and understand how these large systems work.

If you like to focus on customer experience, think, and act globally and want to contribute to the operational excellence of Amazon.com data centers, we’d like to meet you!

Key job responsibilities
Develop and deploy operational tools to automate processes and reduce operational overhead
Hire, Develop, and Mentor team members.
Work with other engineers to build and manage massively scaled services
Work with other engineers to diagnose and resolve customer issues
Track the health of our services, identify and fix problems on complex systems with massive scale
Collaborate with some of the leading minds in distributed systems
Participating in 24/7 on-call rotation to troubleshoot high severity issues

The candidate should be familiar with Linux, including the following:
Various distros and their corresponding package management tools
Permissions and permissions management
System logging and auditing
Log parsing using grep, awk, sed, cut, tr, etc
Remote access via ssh
Knowledge of procfs & sysfs
Linux tools (ip, ifconfig, netstat, tcpdump, strace, netcat, ping, telnet, etc)
System Monitoring Tools (top, stat tools, etc)
DNS and tools (bind, host, dig, nslookup, etc)
Runlevel management tools (systemd, rc.d, inittab, chkconfig, etc)

The candidate should also be familiar with generic development tools and best practices:
Git (or other CM tools)
Agile development
CI/CD or development pipelines