Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer - AWS, Terraform, Security

Eightcap; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Technical and professional training

Wellness and life-style perks such as,

Drinks every Friday

Parental leave entitlements

Job summary

Eightcap, Melbourne-based fintech infrastructure leader, is seeking a Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer to own the health, security and evolution of its AWS estate. You will design multi-account environments, implement Terraform modules, and lead secure, automated pipelines for trading platforms and internal systems.

You will drive incident response, enforce least-privilege access, and embed policy-as-code into pipelines, collaborating with Trading Platform Operations and product squads.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience designing, building and operating production AWS workloads.
• Expert-level Terraform, including reusable modules and remote state management.
• Strong GitHub Actions across application and infra pipelines with secure credentials.
• Software engineering background with tests, code review and release discipline.
• Demonstrable cloud security engineering, including least-privilege IAM and CSPM tooling.
• Experience automating compliance evidence against ISO 27001, SOC 2, AWS Well-Architected.
• Track record leading incidents and post-incident reviews under change control.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the Cloud Platform: design, build and operate multi-account AWS environments.
• Build the Paved Road: own CI/CD in GitHub Actions and standardised environments.
• Engineer Security In: implement IAM, secrets management and CSPM tooling.
• Automate Compliance: evidence and controls for SOC 2/ISO 27001, AWS Well-Architected.
• Own Observability and Reliability: run CloudWatch, define SLOs and runbooks.
• Lead Without the Title: mentor engineers and shape platform standards.
• Partner Across the Business to keep the estate secure and resilient.

Skills

AWS multi-account design

Terraform mastery

GitHub Actions

Software engineering (Python/Go/TS/C#)

Cloud security engineering

Incident response & post-mortems

CI/CD pipelines

Least-privilege IAM & secret mgmt

Education

Software engineering degree

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Wiz CSPM

CloudWatch

AWS security tooling

Job description

Eightcap, Melbourne-based fintech infrastructure leader, is seeking a Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer to own the health, security and evolution of its AWS estate. You will design multi-account environments, implement Terraform modules, and lead secure, automated pipelines for trading platforms and internal systems.

You will drive incident response, enforce least-privilege access, and embed policy-as-code into pipelines, collaborating with Trading Platform Operations and product squads.