AWS Platform Engineer

Aussie IT Jobs; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Aussie IT Jobs in Melbourne is seeking a Senior AWS/Terraform Platform Engineer to design and evolve secure, multi-stack AWS infrastructure for development through production. You will build Terraform modules, environment overlays and cross-stack contracts with careful sequencing, while automating platform processes and enforcing security controls.

You will lead design decisions, mentor engineers, and contribute to incident triage across Terraform, AWS runtime, OS bootstrap and CI/CD pipelines

Qualifications

• Senior production-scale Terraform and AWS platform engineering experience.
• Strong EMR, EC2, EKS, IAM, KMS, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager and SSM knowledge.
• Linux/Amazon Linux 2023 administration and robust Bash/Python automation.
• GitHub Actions and controlled infrastructure CI/CD/release governance.
• Security engineering mindset covering secrets, privileged access, encryption and blast-radius analysis.
• Ability to lead design decisions and mentor engineers in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and safely evolve multi-stack AWS infrastructure across dev, SIT, pre-production and production.
• Build Terraform stacks/modules, environment overlays and SSM-based cross-stack contracts with controlled dependency sequencing.
• Engineer AWS integration services using EMR, EC2, EKS, IAM, KMS, S3, Route53, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager and SSM as applicable.
• Build and maintain GitHub Actions/shared workflows with gated promotion between environments.
• Automate platform processes using Python and Bash with idempotency, logging, failure handling and cleanup.
• Implement secure TLS, secrets handling, access boundaries, tagging/classification and compliance controls.
• Lead platform troubleshooting and production incident triage across Terraform, AWS runtime, OS/bootstrap and pipeline layers.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

Linux administration

Bash automation

Python automation

GitHub Actions

CI/CD governance

Security engineering

Incident triage

Leadership mentoring

Tools

EMR

EC2

EKS

IAM

KMS

S3

CloudWatch

Secrets Manager

SSM

Job description

Role Purpose

Design and build the secure AWS integration layer between the new remediation UI and the underlying remediation applications. Own the platform patterns needed to run, secure, deploy and operate this integration across non-production and production environments.

What you will do

• Design and safely evolve multi-stack AWS infrastructure across dev, SIT, pre-production and production.
• Build Terraform stacks/modules, environment overlays and SSM-based cross-stack contracts with controlled dependency sequencing.
• Engineer AWS integration services using EMR, EC2, EKS, IAM, KMS, S3, Route53, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager and SSM as applicable.
• Build and maintain GitHub Actions/shared workflows with gated promotion between environments.
• Automate platform processes using Python and Bash with idempotency, logging, failure handling and cleanup.
• Implement secure TLS, secrets handling, access boundaries, tagging/classification and compliance controls.
• Support EMR service upgrades and security configuration, including external Kerberos/KDC and Ranger/DataGuard patterns where required.
• Lead platform troubleshooting and production incident triage across Terraform, AWS runtime, OS/bootstrap and pipeline layers.

What you will bring

• Senior production-scale Terraform and AWS platform engineering experience.
• Strong EMR, EC2, EKS, IAM, KMS, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager and SSM knowledge.
• Linux/Amazon Linux 2023 administration and robust Bash/Python automation.
• GitHub Actions and controlled infrastructure CI/CD/release governance.
• Security engineering mindset covering secrets, privileged access, encryption and blast-radius analysis.
• Ability to lead design decisions and mentor engineers in a regulated environment.

Highly regarded

• Kerberos, Ranger, LDAP/SSSD and enterprise identity integration.
• Hadoop/Hive/Oozie/Postgres ecosystem knowledge.
• AWS EC2 Image Builder, OS hardening and patch/compliance automation.
• Java/Maven troubleshooting awareness.