Senior AWS Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & Automation Lead

Yolk Digital; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Baseline security clearance

Job summary

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Software Engineer to operate and improve EIAMS in a hybrid Canberra-based environment. You will manage AWS infrastructure, EKS clusters, and automation while ensuring security, reliability and scalable performance.

Join a cross-disciplinary team delivering critical government cloud services with a focus on incident response, platform security and operational resilience.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on AWS infra experience.
• Experience with EKS and Kubernetes cluster admin.
• Automation of infrastructure using IaC.
• Knowledge of IAM, WAF, RBAC and secrets management.
• CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps/Argo CD or similar.
• Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch/Dynatrace for monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain AWS infrastructure operations for EIAMS.
• Administer EKS and Kubernetes environments, upgrades and patching.
• Develop infrastructure automation to streamline processes including patching and backups.
• Monitor platform performance, scale and cost, improve resilience.
• Maintain monitoring/observability with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Dynatrace.
• Implement AWS security controls (WAF, IAM, IRSA, RBAC, secrets).
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and ArgoCD.
• Investigate and resolve infrastructure incidents with root-cause analysis.

Skills

AWS cloud infra

Amazon EKS

Kubernetes

Infrastructure automation

Cloud security controls

CI/CD pipelines

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Monitoring/observability

Terraform/CloudFormation

GitOps

ISM/Essential Eight knowledge

Gov IT experience

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Job description

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Software Engineer to operate and improve EIAMS in a hybrid Canberra-based environment. You will manage AWS infrastructure, EKS clusters, and automation while ensuring security, reliability and scalable performance.

Join a cross-disciplinary team delivering critical government cloud services with a focus on incident response, platform security and operational resilience.