Senior Cloud Engineer: Platform & DevOps Leader

Salt; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt in Melbourne seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead the design, deployment and optimization of secure, scalable AWS cloud solutions. You will steer platform direction and engineering standards across the organisation.

This hands-on role focuses on automation with Python and Infrastructure as Code, improving governance, cost efficiency and DevOps practices while mentoring teams and promoting best practices in engineering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing secure, resilient AWS cloud environments.
• Strong Python development and automation skills.
• Solid understanding of networking, Internet protocols and distributed systems.
• Experience with DevOps practices and modern engineering methods.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and improve scalable AWS cloud solutions.
• Build automation using Python and infrastructure as code.
• Drive cloud security, governance and operational excellence.
• Partner with engineering, cyber and development teams to deliver enterprise outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and promoting DevOps best practices.

Skills

AWS experience

Python development

Networking concepts

DevOps

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Job description

Salt in Melbourne seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead the design, deployment and optimization of secure, scalable AWS cloud solutions. You will steer platform direction and engineering standards across the organisation.

This hands-on role focuses on automation with Python and Infrastructure as Code, improving governance, cost efficiency and DevOps practices while mentoring teams and promoting best practices in engineering.