Cloud DevOps Engineer

Leaders; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

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Job summary

Leaders is seeking an experienced Cloud DevOps Engineer to build and maintain secure cloud delivery foundations for a large government department in Brisbane. You will design and implement CI/CD pipelines, IaC, DevSecOps/GitOps practices, and automate cloud environments while uplifting monitoring and resilience.

This hands-on role spans delivery, architecture, security and technology stakeholders in an agile setting. Brisbane based with hybrid work options are available.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines in cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (VPC, serverless, ECS, IAM).
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and state management.
• Security‑focused delivery with secrets management best practices.
• Proficient scripting in Python and Bash; Java/Node.js valued.

Responsibilities

• Design and build CI/CD pipelines and IaC foundations.
• Champion DevSecOps/GitOps and automate cloud environments.
• Improve monitoring, observability, and operational resilience.
• Collaborate with delivery, architecture, and security teams in Agile.

Skills

AWS

IAM

CI/CD

Observability

SRE

Python

Bash

Java

Node.js

Networking

Tools

Terraform

Job description

• Long term engagement, up to 5-year total contract period
• Hybrid, 50 % WFH
• Competitive hourly rate, No agency fees

Role : Cloud DevOps Engineer

• Brisbane based
• Long term engagement, up to 5-year total contract period
• Hybrid, 50 % WFH
• Competitive hourly rate, No agency fees

About the role

We’re seeking an experienced Cloud DevOps Engineer to help build and maintain secure, reliable cloud delivery foundations for a large government department in Brisbane.

You will design and build CI/CD pipelines, implement Infrastructure as Code, champion DevSecOps/GitOps practices, automate cloud environments, and uplift monitoring/observability and operational resilience.

This is a hands‑on engineering role working across delivery, architecture, security and technology stakeholders in an agile environment.

Required skills

• StrongAWSexperience (e.g., VPC, serverless, ECS, IAM, etc.)
• StrongIAMknowledge (design and implementation)
• DevOps / SREcapability: CI/CD, observability, incident response, reliability practices
• Terraform(IaC) expertise: provisioning, state management, locking, and best practices
• Scripting skills:PythonandBash(Java also valued; Node.js a bonus)
• AdvancedGitskills: branching strategies, PR workflows, reviews
• Strong engineering practices (e.g., modularisation, DRY principles, maintainable code/IaC patterns)
• Security-focused delivery includingsecrets managementbest practices
• Solid networking fundamentals: DNS, CIDR/subnets, firewalls, load balancing

**Application closing 27th July

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