Platform Engineer (AWS, ECS & DevOps)

Synechron; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to build, operate, and continually improve cloud-native platforms hosted on AWS in Melbourne. You will manage ECS environments, implement IaC, and drive reliability, scalability, and automation across enterprise platforms.

The role requires hands-on expertise in AWS, ECS, Terraform/CloudFormation, CI/CD, and monitoring tools, with a focus on high availability, security, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform/DevOps/SRE roles.
• Hands-on AWS experience with ECS, EC2, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, IAM, and VPC.
• Strong container orchestration and Docker experience.
• Proficient with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, PowerShell.
• Experience building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Monitoring/observability with Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure AWS-based platform infrastructure.
• Manage and support containerized apps on ECS (EC2 or Fargate).
• Monitor platform health and respond to incidents with rapid resolution.
• Troubleshoot performance issues, latency, and failures; optimize resources.
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and testing.
• Configure and maintain observability platforms for visibility.
• Perform RCAs and implement preventative measures to improve stability.
• Collaborate with teams to improve reliability and deployment practices.
• Apply cloud security, governance, and cost-optimization best practices.
• Drive automation to reduce manual work and increase efficiency.

Skills

AWS

ECS

EC2

CloudWatch

Auto Scaling

IAM

VPC & Networking

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python

Bash

PowerShell

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Grafana

Splunk

ELK Stack

SRE principles

Blue-Green & Canary

FinOps

Incident Management

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to build, operate, and continuously improve cloud-native platforms hosted on AWS. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS infrastructure, containerized workloads, CI/CD automation, observability, and production support.

This role requires hands-on experience managing Amazon ECS environments, troubleshooting complex production incidents, implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and driving platform reliability, scalability, and automation initiatives. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering teams to ensure high availability, performance, security, and operational excellence across enterprise platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure AWS-based platform infrastructure.
• Manage and support containerized applications running on Amazon ECS (EC2 and/or Fargate).
• Monitor platform health and respond to production incidents, ensuring minimal downtime and rapid resolution.
• Troubleshoot application performance issues, latency bottlenecks, infrastructure failures, and deployment-related incidents.
• Optimize ECS clusters, Auto Scaling Groups, load balancers, and cloud resources for performance and cost efficiency.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment, testing, and release processes.
• Configure and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability platforms to improve operational visibility.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement preventative measures to improve platform stability.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to enhance application reliability, deployment practices, and operational readiness.
• Implement cloud security, governance, compliance, and operational best practices.
• Drive platform automation initiatives to reduce manual intervention and improve operational efficiency.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including:
• Amazon ECS
• EC2
• CloudWatch
• Auto Scaling
• IAM
• VPC and Networking

Containers & Orchestration

• Strong experience managing containerized applications using:
• Docker
• Amazon ECS

Production Support & Troubleshooting

• Proven experience investigating and resolving production incidents related to:
• High latency
• Application crashes
• Memory leaks
• Resource bottlenecks
• Capacity and scaling issues
• Strong understanding of:
• Application performance tuning
• Resource optimization
• Container performance management

Infrastructure & Automation

• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• Strong scripting and automation skills using:
• Python
• Bash
• PowerShell

DevOps & CI/CD

• Experience implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using:GitHub Actions
• Jenkins

Monitoring & Observability

• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms including:
• CloudWatch
• Grafana
• Splunk
• ELK Stack

Desired Experience

• Strong experience supporting production ECS workloads and container lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of Out-of-Memory (OOM) analysis, JVM tuning, and container resource optimization.
• Experience implementing Blue-Green and Canary deployment strategies.
• Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and operational best practices.
• Experience implementing autoscaling strategies using CPU, memory, throughput, and application-level metrics.
• Understanding of FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization.
• Experience with incident management, post-incident reviews, and operational excellence frameworks.