Senior DevOps Engineer – AWS, Terraform & IaC Lead

TheDriveGroup; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

TheDriveGroup in Sydney is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the modernisation of a growing cloud environment. You will own AWS infrastructure, Terraform patterns, and automation, moving from manual processes to IaC while collaborating with Data & AI teams.

You’ll work in a regulated environment with an emphasis on security, governance and cross-team collaboration, shaping the platform's evolution and cloud strategy.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS engineering is essential.
• Advanced Terraform / Infrastructure as Code skills required.
• Experience with AWS Landing Zones or equivalent.
• Strong cloud architecture, networking, IAM and security knowledge.
• Git and CI/CD experience required.
• Exposure to Azure.
• Experience modernising manual or legacy cloud environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and production support skills.
• Confident in engaging with senior stakeholders.
• Proactive mindset and willingness to challenge and improve existing approaches.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Evolving AWS Landing Zones and multi-account environments.
• Moving infrastructure from ClickOps to Infrastructure as Code.
• Building reusable Terraform patterns, standards and guardrails.
• Working across cloud networking, IAM and security.
• Automating infrastructure delivery through GitHub Enterprise / CI/CD.
• Supporting Azure and progressively bringing infrastructure into IaC.
• Working with Data & AI teams on new AWS capabilities.
• Using AI-assisted engineering tooling to improve automation.
• Bringing greater cloud capability and ownership in-house.

Skills

AWS engineering

Terraform

CI/CD

Git

Azure exposure

Security awareness

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

Job description

TheDriveGroup in Sydney is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the modernisation of a growing cloud environment. You will own AWS infrastructure, Terraform patterns, and automation, moving from manual processes to IaC while collaborating with Data & AI teams.

You’ll work in a regulated environment with an emphasis on security, governance and cross-team collaboration, shaping the platform's evolution and cloud strategy.