Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS

Westpac Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Learning & development opportunities

Community volunteering

Mortgage rate discounts

Job summary

Westpac Group in Sydney seeks a Cloud DevOps Engineer to design, build and operate secure AWS solutions across a range of projects, including AI workloads. You will contribute to automation, technical discovery, and pattern uplift while coordinating with customer and platform product teams.

This hands-on, fast-paced role emphasizes security, production readiness, and compliant delivery. The position focuses on cloud-native AWS services, IaC with Terraform, and CI/CD using Jenkins and GitHub

Qualifications

• Hands-on with AWS cloud-native services (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, KMS).
• Proficiency in IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Security-focused with production readiness, RBAC, encryption, monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure AWS solutions across projects including AI workloads.
• Lead automation, tooling, and documentation; drive pattern uplift and feature requests.
• Engage with customer teams and platform product teams to enable secure cloud adoption.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

Amazon ECS

IAM & S3

Security

VPC

EC2

RDS

CloudWatch

KMS

AI/Bedrock

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

ECS

Kubernetes

Job description

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS.

What’s the role?

An exciting opportunity is available for a Cloud DevOps Engineer to join the Enterprise and Computer Storage Services team within Group Technology.

This team supports internal customers across the bank in their cloud journey by providing AWS solution guidance, technical discovery, pattern advice, and enablement support. The role works closely with customer teams and platform product teams responsible for a broad range of AWS capabilities, including emerging AI and generative AI services.

As a Cloud DevOps Engineer, you will help customers design, build, and operate secure AWS solutions across a wide range of projects — from core cloud platform work through to AI and generative AI workloads. You will support solution shaping, technical investigation, automation, documentation, and the coordination of feature uplift or new pattern requests.

This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong focus on customer enablement, secure AWS design, automation, and practical delivery outcomes.

It is also a fast-paced, high-accountability role in a highly regulated environment. You will balance multiple concurrent engagements, shifting priorities, and tight delivery and compliance deadlines. We are looking for people who genuinely thrive under pressure — who stay calm, organised, and outcome-focused when priorities compete and the stakes are high. If you enjoy a demanding, high-energy environment where your work has real impact, this role is for you.

What do I need?

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud-native services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, and KMS; relevant AWS certifications (e.g. Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security – Specialty) desirable.
• Exposure to AI and generative AI services on AWS, such as Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, and Amazon SageMaker, with a genuine interest in growing in this space.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform) and CI/CD practices using tools such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions for application and infrastructure delivery.
• Strong understanding of cloud security and operational practices, including IAM, RBAC, network security, secrets management, encryption, monitoring, logging, and production readiness.
• Experience with containerisation and microservices patterns using Docker and Amazon ECS.
• Ability to analyse customer requirements, ask good discovery questions, and translate technical needs into practical solution options.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a problem-solving mindset and the ability to work across multiple teams, manage ambiguity, and stay effective under pressure in a fast-paced, highly regulated enterprise environment.

Why join us?

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

Create your future today

We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find more information and contact details on our FAQs and how to contact us page , under the ‘Diversity, sustainability and flexibility’ section.