Senior AWS Platform Engineer - Contract/FTC (Melbourne)

Alois Uk; Melbourne; Presencial; AUD 140.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Alois Australia is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Engineer to design and run secure, scalable AWS infrastructure for remediation projects. This contract role is based in Melbourne, with production-focused Terraform, EMR, EKS and CI/CD governance.

You will own platform patterns, lead cross-team decisions, and mentor engineers while safeguarding compliance and TLS/secret handling across environments. Experience with Kerberos/Ranger, LDAP integration, and image building would be advantageous.

Formación

• Senior production-scale Terraform and AWS platform engineering experience.
• Strong EMR, EC2, EKS, IAM, KMS, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager and SSM knowledge.
• Linux/Amazon Linux 2023 administration and robust Bash/Python automation.
• GitHub Actions and controlled infrastructure CI/CD/release governance.
• Security engineering mindset covering secrets, privileged access, encryption and blast-radius analysis.
• Ability to lead design decisions and mentor engineers in a regulated environment.

Responsabilidades

• Design and safely evolve multi-stack AWS infrastructure across dev, SIT, pre-production and production.
• Build Terraform stacks/modules, environment overlays and SSM-based cross-stack contracts with controlled dependency sequencing.
• Engineer AWS integration services using EMR, EC2, EKS, IAM, KMS, S3, Route53, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager and SSM as applicable.
• Build and maintain GitHub Actions/shared workflows with gated promotion between environments.
• Automate platform processes using Python and Bash with idempotency, logging, failure handling and cleanup.
• Implement secure TLS, secrets handling, access boundaries, tagging/classification and compliance controls.
• Support EMR service upgrades and security configuration, including external Kerberos/KDC and Ranger/DataGuard patterns where required.
• Lead platform troubleshooting and production incident triage across Terraform, AWS runtime, OS/bootstrap and pipeline layers.

Conocimientos

Terraform

AWS platform engineering

Automation (Bash/Python)

GitHub Actions

Security mindset

Leadership/mentoring

Herramientas

EMR

EC2

EKS

IAM

KMS

S3

CloudWatch

Secrets Manager

SSM

Descripción del empleo

Alois Australia is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Engineer to design and run secure, scalable AWS infrastructure for remediation projects. This contract role is based in Melbourne, with production-focused Terraform, EMR, EKS and CI/CD governance.

You will own platform patterns, lead cross-team decisions, and mentor engineers while safeguarding compliance and TLS/secret handling across environments. Experience with Kerberos/Ranger, LDAP integration, and image building would be advantageous.