Senior AWS Cloud Engineer: AI-Driven Ops & Security

Maurice Blackburn; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Maurice Blackburn is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to own the AWS landscape within the Connect team, shaping architecture, roadmap and day-to-day health. You’ll implement scalable multi-account foundations and IaC, and enable AI-enabled operations with secure guardrails.

You’ll build secure environments for AI agents, manage IAM, networking, encryption, and cost optimization, while improving observability and incident response.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing, running and improving production AWS environments
• Deep IaC skills: reusable modules, state and drift management, safe deployments
• Solid technical depth in IAM, Networking, encryption and secrets management
• Experience in observability, incident response, recovery testing and cloud security
• Strong CI/CD, scripting and automation skills, including testing, policy controls, approvals and rollback
• Hands-on experience with AI agents or agentic engineering, and a clear grasp of risks like data leakage and unsafe tool use
• A track record of measurable gains in reliability, efficiency, security or cloud cost

Responsibilities

• Own AWS architecture, roadmap and continuous improvement
• Build and run scalable multi-account AWS foundations with infrastructure as code
• Design and troubleshoot networking, DNS, certificates and connectivity
• Build agent-assisted security monitoring and run authorised testing for risks like prompt injection and unsafe tool use
• Improve observability, incident response and recovery, and turn recurring issues into tested automation
• Create secure environments for AI agents, with clear controls on data, tools, network access, resources and audit trails
• Build CI/CD and self-service pathways so teams can deliver safely and quickly
• Cut manual effort and cloud costs, and prove the savings

Skills

AWS architecture & governance

IaC (modules, state, drift)

IAM, networking, encryption, secrets

Observability, incident response, DR

CI/CD, scripting & automation

AI agents / agentic engineering

Reliability & cloud cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT or related

AWS certifications (welcome)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Observability tools

Job description

Maurice Blackburn is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to own the AWS landscape within the Connect team, shaping architecture, roadmap and day-to-day health. You’ll implement scalable multi-account foundations and IaC, and enable AI-enabled operations with secure guardrails.

You’ll build secure environments for AI agents, manage IAM, networking, encryption, and cost optimization, while improving observability and incident response.