Remote Cloud Platform Engineer – AWS & Observability

Flybuys; Melbourne; Remote; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Well-being days

Volunteer leave

Learning & development

Discount card

Be Well programs

All Team events

Hybrid social events

Job summary

Flybuys is hiring a Cloud Platform Engineer to build, operate and continuously improve secure, cost-efficient cloud platforms across AWS environments. You will leverage automation, infrastructure as code, and reusable platform capabilities to enhance developer experience and resilience.

You will strengthen observability, incident response, and security collaboration while optimizing costs and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on AWS CDK and CloudFormation across Agile teams.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in AWS cloud services across automation, operations, security, resilience and cost optimisation.
• Experience with CloudFront, EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, SNS, SQS, Lambda and Step Functions.
• Proficiency in AWS CDK and CloudFormation; IaC focus.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate and continuously improve secure, scalable AWS platform capabilities using IaC and automation.
• Maintain and enhance cloud infrastructure, container platforms, hosting services and tooling.
• Improve reliability via observability, SLIs/SLAs, resilience patterns and incident response.
• Identify and remediate cloud security risks with security teams.
• Optimize cloud costs through architecture, tagging and insights.
• Maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, runners and deployment workflows.

Skills

AWS expertise

Automation

IaC

CDK

CloudFormation

Datadog

CI/CD

GitLab

Docker

ECS/EKS

Observability

Security

Programming

TypeScript

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

AWS Certifications (SA/DevOps)

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Datadog

GitLab CI

Docker

ECS

EKS

Job description

Flybuys is hiring a Cloud Platform Engineer to build, operate and continuously improve secure, cost-efficient cloud platforms across AWS environments. You will leverage automation, infrastructure as code, and reusable platform capabilities to enhance developer experience and resilience.

You will strengthen observability, incident response, and security collaboration while optimizing costs and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on AWS CDK and CloudFormation across Agile teams.