AWS Cloud Engineer

Synechron; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron is seeking an ETL Solution Designer with 6-7+ years of experience, including 5+ hands-on in AWS. The role requires strong expertise across IAM, networking, compute, storage and security, plus Terraform and CloudFormation for IaC, and Python tooling.

The successful candidate will contribute to cloud governance, multi-account strategies, and secure, scalable cloud architectures in a global IT services environment. Flexible workplace arrangements may be offered.

Qualifications

• 6-7+ years of experience and ideally 5+ hands-on in AWS.
• Strong hands-on AWS background across core services including IAM, networking, compute, storage and security.
• Experience with multi-account strategy, account vending, landing zone tooling and Well-Architected Framework.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Python

Security

IaC

Tools

CloudFormation

Bash

Job description

We’re looking for an ETL Solution Designer

Synechron, is a global provider of Information Technology outsourcing services focused on the banking, finance and payments industry. We provide a broad range of IT services and technology solutions that are flexible, cost-effective, efficient and reliable. We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver high quality resources and solutions to our clients. Through Synechron’s Financial innovation labs, we continue to develop innovative solutions by providing engineering payment solutions, creating tools and processes that shape the evolution of technology. For more information on the company, please visit our website: www.synechron.com.

Job Description:

• 6-7+ years of experience and ideally 5+ hands-on in AWS, with proven capability across cloud engineering and governance, ideally as a Senior Engineer.
• Strong hands-on AWS background across core services, including:
• Identity & governance: IAM, Organizations, Control Tower, Config, CloudTrail
• Networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, security groups/NACLs
• Compute & containers: EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS
• Storage & data: S3, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB
• Security: Security Hub, GuardDuty, KMS, WAF, Firewall Manager
• Observability: CloudWatch (Logs, Metrics, Insights), Splunk
• Experience with multi-account strategy, account vending, landing zone tooling.
• Experience implementing preventative controls, including IAM permission boundaries, Policy as Code, centralized network security (AWS Firewall Manager) and golden AMIs / hardened image pipelines (e.g. EC2 Image Builder).
• Experience with the AWS Well-Architected Framework, applying its pillars to assess and uplift cloud environments.
• Strong cloud security fundamentals (least privilege, segmentation, encryption, secrets), risk and vulnerability management, and familiarity with CSPM tooling.
• Strong IaC, coding and automation: Terraform and/or CloudFormation, Python, boto3, Bash.

SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.