Systems Engineer, Route 53
Role Overview
Systems Engineer within AWS Region Services, working on Route 53 DNS infrastructure for a dedicated sovereign cloud programme.
The role can be based in Sydney or Melbourne; relocation support is available to interstate candidates within Australia.
The description depicts work from a Melbourne or Sydney office.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Systems Engineer within AWS Region Services, working on Route 53 DNS infrastructure for a dedicated sovereign cloud programme.
The role can be based in Sydney or Melbourne; relocation support is available to interstate candidates within Australia.
The description depicts work from a Melbourne or Sydney office.
Key responsibilities
- Design and implement latency-based routing, private DNS, geographic DNS and failover architectures.
- Own the DNS infrastructure engineering lifecycle, including architecture, production implementation and operation.
- Write production code and build automation frameworks, monitoring systems and tools.
- Integrate Route 53 with AWS services and collaborate with teams on architecture, interoperability and reliability.
- Maintain runbooks, lead incident response, perform root-cause analysis and continuously improve system reliability.
- Review code, mentor teammates and share knowledge; monitor system metrics and investigate anomalies.
Basic qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or a related field, or relevant work experience.
- At least 5 years of highly scalable systems experience.
- Knowledge of HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP networking protocols.
- Automation or scripting experience with Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Bash, Shell or equivalent.
- Linux operating system and network troubleshooting experience.
- Australian citizenship and a current or obtainable Australian Government Security Clearance, plus successful Organisational Suitability Assessment.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with AWS, networks and operating systems.
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems, or related analytical, communication and network troubleshooting experience.
- Experience implementing process improvements.
- Extensive DNS infrastructure and protocol knowledge; hands-on configuration of DNS server software such as BIND.
Benefits
- The advertisement lists training and certification support, health and insurance benefits, employee assistance, family-building support, and employee discounts.
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