Senior AWS Platform Engineer – EKS, CI/CD, Hybrid

Strategic Partners Australia; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Partners Australia is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Software Engineer (EL1) to support a Federal Government client. The role is based in Australia with a hybrid work model across states.

You will own cloud infrastructure engineering, manage production incidents, and drive automation and security practices using AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools. Strong troubleshooting and collaborative skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS cloud infrastructure engineering experience.
• Experience with EKS and Kubernetes cluster administration.
• Proven ability to implement secure and reliable operational solutions.

Responsibilities

• Manage production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Design and implement infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor, log, and troubleshoot cloud platforms to ensure reliability.
• Support security controls and IAM configuration.

Skills

AWS cloud infrastructure

EKS

Kubernetes

Infrastructure automation

Security controls (IAM/RBAC/WAF)

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring/Observability

Production incident management

Root cause analysis

Tools

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Job description

Strategic Partners Australia is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Software Engineer (EL1) to support a Federal Government client. The role is based in Australia with a hybrid work model across states.

You will own cloud infrastructure engineering, manage production incidents, and drive automation and security practices using AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools. Strong troubleshooting and collaborative skills are essential for success.