Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer - Hybrid 12-Month

Change Recruitment; Perth; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Change Recruitment is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to join a software business on a 12-month fixed-term contract with hybrid working arrangements.

The role focuses on building secure AWS environments, automating infrastructure, and strengthening security while supporting critical applications. You will collaborate with software, infrastructure, and security teams to tackle complex cloud challenges and raise engineering standards across the platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Infra Engineering or SRE.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and managing production AWS environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across multiple environments.
• Manage core AWS services, including VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora and networking.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
• Improve infrastructure automation, deployment processes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strengthen platform reliability through monitoring, disaster recovery, backups and high-availability solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure issues and support production incident resolution.
• Implement cloud security controls, access management and infrastructure governance.
• Identify opportunities to optimise AWS performance, resource utilisation and cloud costs.
• Provide technical guidance and support to other engineers.

Skills

AWS Cloud Engineering

CI/CD practices

SRE mindset

Scripting: Python/Bash/PowerShell

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

ECS/Fargate

RDS/Aurora

Job description

Change Recruitment is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to join a software business on a 12-month fixed-term contract with hybrid working arrangements.

The role focuses on building secure AWS environments, automating infrastructure, and strengthening security while supporting critical applications. You will collaborate with software, infrastructure, and security teams to tackle complex cloud challenges and raise engineering standards across the platform.