AWS Engineering Lead — Cloud Platform & AI

Professional Recruitment Australia; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Certification pathway

Diverse client exposure

Job summary

Professional Recruitment Australia – Sydney NSW is seeking an AWS Engineering Lead to steer a full end-to-end cloud workstream from landing zone to production. You will own architecture, guide a growing team of engineers, and uphold security and production standards for client projects.

This role requires 6–10 years in AWS engineering or technical leadership, hands-on experience with Control Tower, Landing Zone, Terraform and AWS CDK, and a proven track record of enterprise cloud transitions.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years in AWS engineering, architecture or leadership.
• Experience with multi-account AWS architecture, Control Tower, Landing Zone Accelerator, Transit Gateway and Entra ID federation.
• Strong IaC with AWS CDK and Terraform, and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Practical experience delivering solutions with Amazon Bedrock and generative AI.
• Experience supporting or leading enterprise transitions to cloud-native AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead a technical workstream and a team of engineers, owning architecture and build through to production.
• Run architecture and code reviews, including AI-generated output, maintaining a high bar for security and production-readiness.
• Be a key technical contact for clients, translating complex requirements into practical solutions.
• Own system performance, security posture and resilience, and act as the escalation point.
• Build accelerators, scope new opportunities and help shape how the practice works.

Skills

AWS leadership

Architectural design

Control Tower

Landing Zone

Terraform

AWS CDK

CI/CD pipelines

Bedrock AI

Enterprise migrations

Client engagement

Tools

AWS CDK

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Professional Recruitment Australia – Sydney NSW is seeking an AWS Engineering Lead to steer a full end-to-end cloud workstream from landing zone to production. You will own architecture, guide a growing team of engineers, and uphold security and production standards for client projects.

This role requires 6–10 years in AWS engineering or technical leadership, hands-on experience with Control Tower, Landing Zone, Terraform and AWS CDK, and a proven track record of enterprise cloud transitions.