Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer — Hands-On Leader

White Bay; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

White Bay in Sydney is seeking an experienced Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to own the AWS platform, drive a cloud modernisation programme and lead a DevOps team. The role is hands-on (about 70%) with the remaining time for technical leadership, mentoring and establishing engineering standards.

You will manage an AWS/ECS/Fargate environment, mentor offshore DevOps engineers, and work with security/compliance frameworks while enabling automation and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on AWS engineering experience (ECS, Fargate, production infra).
• Advanced Terraform expertise with modular design and scalable infra.

Responsibilities

• Lead AWS platform direction and establish engineering standards.
• Drive modernisation of ECS/Fargate and Elastic Beanstalk infrastructure.
• Own and evolve Terraform infra, including remote state and drift detection.
• Migrate deployment pipelines to GitHub Actions and GitOps with secure patterns.
• Improve observability, incident response, and reliability engineering.

Skills

AWS ECS Fargate

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitOps

Python

Bash

Security & Compliance

Technical leadership

Tools

Terraform modules

Job description

White Bay in Sydney is seeking an experienced Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to own the AWS platform, drive a cloud modernisation programme and lead a DevOps team. The role is hands-on (about 70%) with the remaining time for technical leadership, mentoring and establishing engineering standards.

You will manage an AWS/ECS/Fargate environment, mentor offshore DevOps engineers, and work with security/compliance frameworks while enabling automation and cost optimization.