Senior AWS Cloud & DevOps Engineer — Terraform & Security

Eightcap; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Monthly corporate massages

Drinks every Friday

Parental leave entitlements

Staff referral bonus

Job summary

Eightcap, headquartered in Melbourne, seeks a Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer to own the AWS estate powering trading services and internal systems. You will design multi-account AWS environments, implement Terraform-driven changes, and embed security and compliance into pipelines.

You will lead observability, define SLOs, manage incidents, and mentor engineers while shaping the cloud roadmap. Join a high-performance team in a fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience designing, building and operating production AWS workloads.
• Expert-level Terraform, including authoring reusable modules and remote state management.
• Strong GitHub Actions experience across application and infrastructure pipelines.
• Software engineering background in Python, Go, TypeScript or C# with tests and release discipline.
• Cloud security engineering including least-privilege IAM, RBAC, SSO and secret management.
• Experience automating compliance evidence against ISO 27001, SOC 2 and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Incident management and post-incident review leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the Cloud Platform: design, build and operate multi-account AWS environments using Terraform as backbone.
• Build the paved road: own CI/CD in GitHub Actions and create boilerplates for .NET, Go and Python.
• Engineer security in: implement least-privilege IAM, secrets mgmt and CSPM tooling into pipelines.
• Automate compliance: continuous evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001 and AWS Well-Architected requirements.
• Own observability and reliability: manage CloudWatch, define SLOs and lead incident responses.
• Lead without the title: set platform standards, review changes and mentor the team.
• Partner across the business: work with Infra, Security, Product and Trading Ops.

Skills

AWS multi-account design

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Python

Go

C#

Cloud security engineering

Incident response

Observability

Tools

Terraform tooling

IAM tooling (Wiz etc.)

CloudWatch

CI/CD automation

Job description

Eightcap, headquartered in Melbourne, seeks a Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer to own the AWS estate powering trading services and internal systems. You will design multi-account AWS environments, implement Terraform-driven changes, and embed security and compliance into pipelines.

You will lead observability, define SLOs, manage incidents, and mentor engineers while shaping the cloud roadmap. Join a high-performance team in a fintech environment.