Senior AWS Platform Engineer – Secure Cloud Automation

ALOIS UK; Perth; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ALOIS Australia is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Engineer to design and implement secure, scalable AWS infrastructure for remediation integration across development to production environments in Melbourne. You will own platform patterns, automate deployments, and ensure compliance and resilience in a production-grade setup.

Responsibilities include building Terraform modules, integrating EMR/EKS/IAM/KMS/S3, and leading incident triage while mentoring engineers in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Senior production-scale Terraform and AWS platform experience.
• Strong EMR, EC2, EKS, IAM, KMS, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager and SSM knowledge.
• Linux/Amazon Linux 2023 administration and robust Bash/Python automation.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

EMR

EC2

EKS

IAM

KMS

S3

CloudWatch

Secrets Manager

SSM

Bash

Python

GitHub Actions

Linux

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Linux

Job description

ALOIS Australia is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Engineer to design and implement secure, scalable AWS infrastructure for remediation integration across development to production environments in Melbourne. You will own platform patterns, automate deployments, and ensure compliance and resilience in a production-grade setup.

Responsibilities include building Terraform modules, integrating EMR/EKS/IAM/KMS/S3, and leading incident triage while mentoring engineers in a regulated environment.