Principal Cloud & DevOps Engineer (AWS, Terraform)

Recruitment Hive; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Recruitment Hive is assisting an independent statutory agency in Sydney to appoint a Principal Software Engineer who will lead the design, deployment and support of cloud and data infrastructure. The role requires driving DevOps pipelines, IaC with Terraform, and container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.

You will engage stakeholders to define requirements, set priorities, and deliver results within an agile framework, while expanding multi-cloud capabilities across AWS and Azure.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on AWS cloud architecture experience.
• Proven ability to design, implement, and manage scalable cloud solutions.
• Experience with Terraform IaC and DevOps pipelines.
• Proficiency with Git and agile development methods.
• Leadership in agile teams and strong stakeholder engagement.
• Containerization with Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
• Database administration for Postgres and MySQL.
• Azure administration and multi-cloud expansion with AWS.
• Strong networking design and troubleshooting in cloud environments.
• Secret management using HashiCorp Vault.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, deployment, and support of the Agency’s Cloud & Data Infrastructure.
• Prioritise and manage the work queue to ensure timely delivery of key initiatives.
• Ensure that all solutions adhere to integration best practices.
• Play a key leadership role in project teams, utilising an agile development framework.
• Engage with stakeholders to define project requirements, set priorities, and deliver results.

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

DevOps practices

IaC (Terraform)

Version control (Git)

Agile leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Containerization (Docker)

Kubernetes

Database administration (Postgres, MyQ

Azure cloud

Networking in cloud

Secret management (Vault)

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

Git

CI/CD pipelines

HashiCorp Vault

Job description

Recruitment Hive is assisting an independent statutory agency in Sydney to appoint a Principal Software Engineer who will lead the design, deployment and support of cloud and data infrastructure. The role requires driving DevOps pipelines, IaC with Terraform, and container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.

You will engage stakeholders to define requirements, set priorities, and deliver results within an agile framework, while expanding multi-cloud capabilities across AWS and Azure.