Senior Cloud AWS Engineer

  • Australia
  • Brisbane
  • Contract
  • Negotiable
  • 6 Month Contract
  • $1000 Per Day
  • Brisbane Based

The Opportunity

As a Senior Cloud AWS Engineer, you will provide specialist system support and expert technical leadership across AWS Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps initiatives. You will work across architecture, platform engineering, and secure cloud delivery, helping shape scalable, modern digital services.

This role requires deep AWS expertise and the ability to operate confidently across complex cloud networks and multi-account environments. There may be occasions where work is required outside standard business hours.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead advanced AWS Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps services within agreed service levels.
  • Provide architectural leadership, presenting solutions and proposals to stakeholders.
  • Drive DevOps platform engineering practices including workshops, proof of concepts, demonstrations and evaluations.
  • Lead customer onboarding to cloud platforms and research emerging technologies.
  • Develop cost models, solution collateral and strategic recommendations.
  • Mentor and guide technical specialists, identifying risk, improvement opportunities and infrastructure optimisation strategies.
  • Support AWS workload migrations across accounts.
  • Deliver secure, compliant DevOps solutions aligned to enterprise standards.

About You

You are a senior cloud professional with extensive experience in AWS environments and secure enterprise platforms. You bring strong leadership capability, technical depth and the ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to diverse stakeholders.

You will demonstrate:

  • Expert-level AWS Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps experience in enterprise, high-security environments.
  • Proven ability to deliver reliable cloud management and enhancement services.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
  • Experience operating within structured organisational processes.
  • Experience migrating AWS workloads between accounts.
  • Experience delivering Digital Identity and API Data Sharing solutions (including financial-grade APIs and Developer Portals).
  • Solid understanding of modern application development (front-end and full stack approaches).

Essential Technical Expertise

  • Design and implementation of AWS cloud-native (Serverless) and container-based solutions.
  • Experience within AWS landing zone accelerators and multi-account architectures.
  • Platform engineering guardrails and shared DevOps environments.
  • Secure DevOps practices and integrated security across CI/CD pipelines.
  • CI/CD tooling including GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline.
  • Strong AWS administration skills.
  • Hands-on experience with:
    • EKS, ECS, EC2, Fargate
    • Lambda and event-driven services
    • CloudWatch, CloudTrail
    • Load balancing and AWS networking
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CDK and TypeScript.
  • Strong scripting and automation capability.

If this is something you’d like to be considered for click APPLY NOW or contact David at david.reynolds@talentinternational.com

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