Cloud Support Associate Apprentice, Support Engineering

Job  | Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd

The Cloud Support Apprenticeship Program is for Australian Permanent residents who are passionate about technology and looking to start their career in the cloud.

A qualification and a career at the same time? Learning and earning within an apprenticeship means you can get both – a qualification and a career.

Are you interested in multiple technologies and working with companies to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud solutions?

AWS Cloud Support Associates bridge the gaps between systems, software, and operations, and are not constrained by how "things are usually done." Ready to challenge the status quo? Over a million customers rely on AWS for building and running their applications and businesses. Support Engineers work on large‑scale system design and help in operational decision‑making.

Cloud Support Associates work with companies every day to help them move their technology to the cloud and solve different types of technical challenges. They're also the voice of the customer and provide feedback on customer needs when working with engineering teams to develop new features.

The Cloud Support Associate Apprenticeship Program is an accelerated career‑development program for professionals who want to start or advance their technical skills. Training is broken into two main pieces: instructor‑led and on‑the‑job training.

• The instructor‑led training (ILT) is projected to start in April 2026 and consists of 2 days a week of training in a virtual classroom environment delivered by our Vocational Provider. This will result in a recognized Diploma.
• Alongside the ILT, apprentices will proceed to on‑the‑job training (OJT) s will be delivered in person format with teams based across Sydney.

If accepted, apprentices will be provided both formalized IT training by our Vocational Provider (2 days a week) and paid on‑the‑job training and experience (3 days a week) s is an 18‑month program leading to a Vocational Diploma in IT and an opportunity to join AWS as a permanent employee as part of a world‑class technical team.

As an apprentice, you will have a unique opportunity to combine technical and hands‑on training with the AWS team as you help individuals and businesses maintain their computing infrastructures and applications in the Cloud.

Our customers rely on AWS network for building and running their applications and businesses. Their success depends on our world‑class network infrastructure, and our network depends on our systems team!

• Work with network, systems, and software engineers to create proactive engineering mechanisms that will enable your team to manage the health of a number of distributed specialized Linux server fleets and the software stacks that run on them.
• Deploy and monitor the systems and automation to ensure that regional tooling is operating optimally.
• Utilize trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks, tools and processes to continuously improve systems.
• Perform high‑quality systems deployment, operations, best‑practices application, optimization, internal/external customer interactions, and produce appropriate technical documentation and reports.
• Maintain responsibility for systems functionality, performance, and configurations issues.
• Apply knowledge of Unix concepts and theory, and participate in systems deployment and support.
• Regularly contribute to the creation and improvement of all support documentation.
• Operate with limited guidance from management and aggressively drive issues to resolution.

• Year 12 certificate or higher
• You are interested in pursuing a career in the technology
• You are available to start the program in April and work/study for a period of 18 months

• Education or certificates in computer science or equivalent

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.

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