AWS Platform Engineer (Remote/Hybrid)

Flybuys; Melbourne; Remote; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flybuysflex

Well-being days

Volunteer leave

Learning & development programs

Team member discount

Be Well Programs

Team events

Hybrid social events

Starter merchandise

Job summary

Flybuys is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build and operate secure, scalable AWS platform capabilities across Australia. You will use IaC and automation to improve developer experience, observability and resilience while reducing risk.

The role covers on-call duties and collaboration with security and engineering teams. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in cloud/DevOps, strong AWS service knowledge, and hands-on CDK/CloudFormation experience.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with AWS automation, security, resilience and cost optimization.
• Proficient in AWS services including CloudFront, EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, SNS, SQS, Lambda and Step Functions.
• Hands-on with AWS CDK and CloudFormation; experience with observability tooling is beneficial.
• Strong Docker/ECS/EKS experience and secure DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Build secure, scalable AWS platform capabilities using infrastructure as code and automated delivery practices.
• Operate and enhance cloud infrastructure, container platforms, hosting services and supporting tooling.
• Improve reliability through observability, SLOs/SLIs, resilience patterns, disaster recovery and incident response.
• Identify and remediate cloud security risks in partnership with security and application teams.
• Optimise cloud costs and capacity through architecture, lifecycle management, tagging and usage insights.
• Maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, runners and deployment workflows that support production releases.
• Create internal tools and reusable patterns to improve developer experience.
• Coach application teams in AWS operational excellence and platform standards.
• Use approved AI-assisted engineering tools to improve platform delivery and operations.
• Participate in the on-call roster and contribute to incident reviews and lasting corrective actions.

Skills

AWS

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Docker

Datadog

GitLab CI

Observability

CI/CD

TypeScript

Python

Go

Java

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or related

Tools

CloudFormation

CDK

Datadog

GitLab

Docker

ECS

EKS

Job description

Flybuys is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build and operate secure, scalable AWS platform capabilities across Australia. You will use IaC and automation to improve developer experience, observability and resilience while reducing risk.

The role covers on-call duties and collaboration with security and engineering teams. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in cloud/DevOps, strong AWS service knowledge, and hands-on CDK/CloudFormation experience.