Cloud Platform Engineer — AWS, CI/CD & DevOps

Slalom; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Slalom Australia is seeking an Engineer - Cloud Platform to deliver reliable cloud platform components and automation within a client-focused, collaborative team. You will contribute to DevOps practices, build CI/CD pipelines, and work with AWS services to enable scalable applications.

You will grow your technical skills in Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, and automation scripting while collaborating with senior engineers to solve practical business problems for customers.

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud engineering or DevOps with exposure to production environments using AWS.
• Experience developing or supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar.
• Understanding of core cloud concepts and services, particularly AWS.
• Understanding of cloud competencies, including Landing Zone and cloud platform fundamentals and common cloud/hybrid network patterns.
• AWS certifications (Cloud Practitioner, Developer Associate, Solutions Architect Associate, or similar) are highly regarded.
• Understanding of core AWS services, such as EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, API Gateway, RDS, and CloudWatch.
• Interest in learning how cloud platforms enable scalable, secure, and reliable applications.
• Application migration and modernisation principles.
• Understanding of cloud security-focused engineering practices, including Identity and access management and fundamental cloud security principles.
• Experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code, using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK.
• Ability to write and maintain automation scripts using languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar.
• Collaborate across cross-functional and technical teams to deliver Agile-based projects.
• Apply technical knowledge to solve practical business problems for customers.
• Translate customer requirements into practical technical solutions with guidance from senior team members.

Responsibilities

• Apply DevOps culture, tooling, delivery methods, and engineering practices within Slalom and our clients.
• Implement technical solutions based on established architecture and engineering patterns.
• Contribute to estimating work efforts and story pointing for assigned project tasks.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation to support application and platform delivery.
• Work with senior engineers and architects to implement cloud infrastructure and platform components.
• Identify and raise technical risks, issues, dependencies, and blockers.
• Participate in technical discussions, design sessions, code reviews, and Agile ceremonies.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team.
• Build hands-on experience with emerging cloud, automation, and AI technologies.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

Job description

Slalom Australia is seeking an Engineer - Cloud Platform to deliver reliable cloud platform components and automation within a client-focused, collaborative team. You will contribute to DevOps practices, build CI/CD pipelines, and work with AWS services to enable scalable applications.

You will grow your technical skills in Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, and automation scripting while collaborating with senior engineers to solve practical business problems for customers.