Hybrid AWS Platform Engineer - Automation & Reliability

Latitude IT

Sydney

Hybrid

AUD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

43 hours ago

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Job summary

Latitude IT is seeking an experienced AWS Platform Engineer to help scale and automate a modern AWS environment. You will work with the Head of Platform Engineering and software teams to improve infrastructure, reliability and deployment practices across global products.

You will contribute to AWS infrastructure, DevOps automation, CI/CD and platform reliability, while advocating better engineering practices and hands-on ownership of platform initiatives that impact the wider engineering

Qualifications

3–6 years' experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering.
Hands-on experience supporting and managing AWS infrastructure.
Familiarity with AWS services such as Lambda, S3 and DynamoDB.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes and automation.
An understanding of cloud networking, security, scalability and infrastructure reliability.
Exposure to monitoring, logging, troubleshooting and production support.
Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with software engineering teams.

Responsibilities

AWS Infrastructure: Support and improve a broad AWS environment across compute, storage, networking, serverless and data services.
Platform Modernisation: Identify opportunities to improve cloud architecture, scalability, security, performance and cost efficiency.
DevOps & Automation: Enhance CI/CD pipelines, streamline deployments and reduce manual processes through automation and Infrastructure as Code.
Reliability & Monitoring: Improve monitoring, logging, alerting and observability to support platform stability and performance.
Operational Excellence: Assist with incident response, troubleshooting and the development of more mature reliability practices.
Engineering Collaboration: Work closely with software engineers and international platform teams to resolve technical challenges and improve developer workflows.