The hunt for Australian IT talent is heating up with Amazon Web Services looking to airlift Aussie engineers to its Seattle HQ as part of a global grab for up to 100 developers.
The public cloud giant is running a one-week hiring blitz in Melbourne later this month to grow the US-based team for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2.
An AWS spokesperson told CRN: "Since launching AWS in Australia, it has become clear that there is a great depth of talent in the local industry. For example, this is evidenced by the quality of the local AWS Sydney Support centre and architecture team that serves the local market Interview.
"Events like these are fantastic opportunities for our engineers to meet with the best local developer talent and shed light on some of the interesting opportunities AWS can offer them."
AWS officially launched in Australia in 2012.
[Related: Amazon's meteoric revenue rise in Australia]
AWS is not alone in scouring the globe for the best IT skills.
Homegrown software success story, Atlassian, runs regular hiring events overseas to win over talented designers and developers and bring them to Australia.
Atlassian's San Francisco-based chief people officer, Jeff Diana, pointed to a campaign it ran in Europe in 2012, dubbed "Steal your Geeks".
The "bus-style tour" sought UK-based talent with Australian backgrounds or roots.
The software firm sets its sights on hiring 15 developers in 15 days, and ended up hiring double that number.
Jeff Diana told CRN that the war on talent is "extremely competitive and only getting more competitive".
Due to its local roots, Atlassian's "biggest movement of talent is from Europe to Australia".
Competition for talent is not only coming from normal places, such as Amazon and Google or pure tech pure startups, but also traditional industries looking for technical talent. "They have the hardest road due to the culture of doing some technical in non-technical companies."
Next: Australia's startup culture
-1.jpg&w=100&c=1&s=0)
.png&w=100&c=1&s=0)
