AWS Engineering Lead — Hands-On Cloud Architect & Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Salary package with 12% superannuation

Job summary

The Recruitment Company in Sydney is seeking an AWS Engineering Lead to own technical solutions, guide engineers and deliver cloud platforms for enterprise clients. You will work across architecture, infrastructure automation and cloud-native delivery while staying hands-on with engineering challenges.

The role requires 6–10 years of AWS experience, strong hands-on AWS capabilities, and leadership skills. Located in Sydney CBD with on-site client work; salary package of AUD 128,000–167,860 plus

Qualifications

• 6–10 years 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 and confidence engaging directly 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 architecture

Leadership / mentoring

Client communication

Cloud-native engineering

Python

CI/CD

Technical delivery

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

EKS

ECS

AWS Control Tower

IAM

Networking

Job description

The Recruitment Company in Sydney is seeking an AWS Engineering Lead to own technical solutions, guide engineers and deliver cloud platforms for enterprise clients. You will work across architecture, infrastructure automation and cloud-native delivery while staying hands-on with engineering challenges.

The role requires 6–10 years of AWS experience, strong hands-on AWS capabilities, and leadership skills. Located in Sydney CBD with on-site client work; salary package of AUD 128,000–167,860 plus