Associate Support Engineer, Region Services

Applicants must be Australian citizens and hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance with the ability to successfully complete an Organisational Suitability Assessment. For more information regarding security clearances please visit (

The AWS Region Services team combines AWS global cloud leadership with Australian security expertise to deliver highly secure scalable environments for sensitive workloads. Were creating innovative ways to use cloud computing artificial intelligence and machine learning while maintaining the highest standards of security and operational excellence.

The Engineering organisation within Region Services is structured across core capability pillars: Compute & Machine Learning Security Identity & Compliance Storage & Databases and a growing capability domain. Collectively these pillars encompass a team of varying technical skillsets including Engineers; Technical Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts organised into focused sub-teams.

This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on Australias digital future. Youll work with AWS services implement innovative solutions and help customers succeed in their most important missions. Were committed to helping our builders grow through continuous learning mentoring and collaboration with industry experts. Are you ready to build the future of secure cloud computing in Australia

Key job responsibilities
- Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers individual needs.
- Interact with engineers and partner with other AWS teams to help reproduce and resolve customer issues.
- Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal AWS teams on how to improve our services.
- Drive customer communication during critical events.
- Drive projects that improve support-related processes and our customers technical support experience.
- Write tutorials how-to videos and other technical articles for the developer community.
- Work on critical highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services.
- Apart from working on a broad spectrum of technical issues an AWS Support Engineer may also coach/mentor new hires develop & present training partner with development teams on complex issues or contact deflection initiatives participate in new hiring write tools/script to help the team or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives.

Must hold or be able to attain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency clearance (see

A day in the life
First and foremost this is a Linux technical support role in the Cloud. On a typical day a Support Engineer will be primarily responsible for solving internal operational issues preparing or reviewing operational dashboards working through our change management system to modify systems writing new run-books for newly onboarded services training other new Support Engineers and using our internal AI systems in problem solving and diagnosis.

You will be required to occasionally participate in on-call rotations to resolve incidents occurring out-of-hours.

About the team
Region Services provides the highest caliber Operational Solutions and Cleared Support for services within our Regions. We provide hands on keyboard support to our service teams by deploying changes into these isolated regions monitoring the results and reporting any issues that are observed.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

- 1 years of technical support experience
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP DNS and TCP/IP
- Experience scripting in modern programming languages
- 1 years of Linux systems administration and/or development experience

- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Bachelors degree or 1 years of relevant technical position experience
- Knowledge of cloud computing concepts and design considerations
- Experience with networking fundamentals
- Experience with server storage networking or large-scale distributed systems

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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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