Senior AWS Platform Engineer - Government Cloud (Hybrid)

IT Alliance; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Alliance is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Software Engineer to support the federal government EIAMS cloud infrastructure. The role emphasizes AWS, EKS, automation, and platform security to ensure a secure, reliable, and high-performing environment.

You will collaborate with cybersecurity and delivery teams to implement platform enhancements, application releases and resilience improvements while maintaining availability of critical services.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years hands-on AWS cloud infrastructure experience.
• Strong expertise with EKS and Kubernetes cluster management.
• Experience in infrastructure automation and cloud engineering.
• Knowledge of AWS security controls (IAM, WAF, secrets).
• CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, Argo CD or similar.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Maintain AWS infrastructure operations for reliability and security.
• Administer EKS clusters, upgrades, patching, vulnerability remediation.
• Develop automation to streamline operations and backups.
• Monitor performance, capacity, and cost optimization.
• Maintain monitoring/logging using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Dynatrace.
• Manage incidents, root-cause analysis, and preventative actions.
• Collaborate with security teams and delivery stakeholders.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Amazon EKS

Kubernetes

Infrastructure automation

CI/CD pipelines

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Security controls

Monitoring tools

Incident management

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitOps

Job description

IT Alliance is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Software Engineer to support the federal government EIAMS cloud infrastructure. The role emphasizes AWS, EKS, automation, and platform security to ensure a secure, reliable, and high-performing environment.

You will collaborate with cybersecurity and delivery teams to implement platform enhancements, application releases and resilience improvements while maintaining availability of critical services.