AWS Cloud Engineer

Strategic Partners Australia; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Partners Australia is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Software Engineer (EL1) to support a Federal Government client. The role is based in Australia with a hybrid work model across states.

You will own cloud infrastructure engineering, manage production incidents, and drive automation and security practices using AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools. Strong troubleshooting and collaborative skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS cloud infrastructure engineering experience.
• Experience with EKS and Kubernetes cluster administration.
• Proven ability to implement secure and reliable operational solutions.

Responsibilities

• Manage production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Design and implement infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor, log, and troubleshoot cloud platforms to ensure reliability.
• Support security controls and IAM configuration.

Skills

AWS cloud infrastructure

EKS

Kubernetes

Infrastructure automation

Security controls (IAM/RBAC/WAF)

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring/Observability

Production incident management

Root cause analysis

Tools

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Job description

Greetings from Strategic Partners Australia!

We are hiring Senior AWS Platform Software Engineer - (EL1 Level) candidates for our Federal Government Client.

Work Location -All states (Hybrid)

Security Clearance: NV1

Technical skills:

• A minimum of three years’ demonstrated hands-on experience in AWS cloud infrastructure engineering and operational support, preferably within complex enterprise or production environments.
• Strong technical expertise and hands-on experience with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes, including cluster administration, upgrades, troubleshooting, patching and performance optimisation.
• Demonstrated experience in infrastructure automation and cloud engineering practices, with the ability to implement reliable, secure and efficient operational solutions.
• Sound knowledge of AWS security architecture and controls, including IAM, IRSA, RBAC, WAF, secrets management and vulnerability management.
• Experience implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Argo CD or comparable deployment technologies.
• Practical experience with monitoring, logging and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Amazon CloudWatch or Dynatrace.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities, including experience managing production incidents, undertaking root cause analysis and supporting service recovery.