Senior AWS CloudOps Engineer — Windows & Automation

NCS Group Australia; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Discounted health insurance

Employee discounts and wellbeing

Job summary

NCS Australia is seeking a Senior CloudOps Engineer to partner with clients, build and modernise applications, and optimise AWS environments in complex cloud landscapes. The role emphasizes BAU operations, automation, and architectural guidance.

You will lead incident response, RCA, and on-call support while driving automation using CloudFormation or Terraform, and collaborating with delivery and operations teams across client engagements.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, etc.)
• Strong networking concepts knowledge (VPNs, Direct Connect, DNS, hybrid)
• Experience supporting Windows in AWS
• Strong scripting/automation skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash)
• Hands-on monitoring/logging tools experience (CloudWatch, Splunk, LogicMonitor)
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• Cloud security best practices and compliance understanding

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response, problem management, and RCA for critical issues
• Hands-on in developing code and driving automation and IaC
• Provide 24x7 on-call production support per roster
• Design, implement, and support scalable and secure AWS solutions
• Advise on performance, security, and cost optimisation for cloud services
• Engage in project-based delivery work including building and deploying new cloud solutions

Skills

AWS expertise

Networking concepts

Windows in AWS

Scripting/Automation

Monitoring/Logging

IaC (Terraform/CFN)

Cloud security

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

NCS Australia is seeking a Senior CloudOps Engineer to partner with clients, build and modernise applications, and optimise AWS environments in complex cloud landscapes. The role emphasizes BAU operations, automation, and architectural guidance.

You will lead incident response, RCA, and on-call support while driving automation using CloudFormation or Terraform, and collaborating with delivery and operations teams across client engagements.