AWS Engineering Lead — Enterprise Cloud, Hands-on Leader

The Recruitment Company; Sydney; On-site; AUD 128,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Superannuation

Job summary

The Recruitment Company seeks an AWS Engineering Lead to own technical solutions across enterprise transformation programmes. You will guide engineers, design secure multi-account AWS environments, and advance cloud-native platforms with Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation.

You will collaborate with client stakeholders, drive delivery standards and mentor teams, while solving complex engineering challenges in AWS. This role offers a hands-on leadership path with substantial enterprise impact.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of AWS/cloud engineering experience.
• Strong production AWS architecture and hands-on engineering capability.
• Proven experience with Terraform and/or AWS CDK.
• Understanding of AWS landing zones, networking, IAM and multi-account architecture.
• Experience with Python, automation, CI/CD and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience guiding engineers or leading technical delivery workstreams.
• Excellent communication skills engaging with enterprise clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of enterprise AWS engineering solutions.
• Architect secure multi-account AWS environments, landing zones and cloud foundations.
• Work with AWS Control Tower, Organizations, IAM, networking and security guardrails.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
• Guide the development of EKS/ECS, serverless and cloud-native application platforms.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and engineering direction.
• Work directly with client stakeholders to translate requirements into practical solutions.
• Take ownership of technical quality, delivery outcomes and engineering standards.

Skills

AWS

Python

CI/CD

Automation

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Job description

The Recruitment Company seeks an AWS Engineering Lead to own technical solutions across enterprise transformation programmes. You will guide engineers, design secure multi-account AWS environments, and advance cloud-native platforms with Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation.

You will collaborate with client stakeholders, drive delivery standards and mentor teams, while solving complex engineering challenges in AWS. This role offers a hands-on leadership path with substantial enterprise impact.