Senior AWS Engineer - Terraform & Cloud Automation

The Recruitment Company; Sydney; On-site; AUD 103,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary package: 103k–125k AUD + 12%

Job summary

The Recruitment Company is seeking an experienced AWS Engineer to join a leading global consulting organisation in Sydney. You will design, build and automate secure AWS environments that support enterprise applications, using Terraform, AWS CDK and CloudFormation.

With 3–6 years of hands-on AWS experience, you will develop automation, work with Kubernetes and serverless patterns, and collaborate with client teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions. This is a full-time onsite role in Sydney.

Qualifications

• Approximately 3–6 years of relevant AWS/cloud engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on AWS engineering across production environments.
• Practical Terraform and/or AWS CDK experience.
• Python scripting or development skills.
• Exposure to Kubernetes, containers, serverless or cloud-native apps.
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and automate secure, scalable AWS infrastructure.
• Deliver Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK and/or CloudFormation.
• Work with AWS services including VPC, IAM, EKS/ECS, Lambda and API Gateway.
• Develop automation using Python and modern CI/CD tooling.
• Support cloud migrations, platform modernisation and application deployment.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers and client teams on technical solutions.
• Contribute to engineering standards, security and continuous improvement.

Skills

Hands-on AWS engineering

Python scripting

Kubernetes

Cloud-native applications

Strong communication

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Job description

The Recruitment Company is seeking an experienced AWS Engineer to join a leading global consulting organisation in Sydney. You will design, build and automate secure AWS environments that support enterprise applications, using Terraform, AWS CDK and CloudFormation.

With 3–6 years of hands-on AWS experience, you will develop automation, work with Kubernetes and serverless patterns, and collaborate with client teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions. This is a full-time onsite role in Sydney.