Senior Solutions Architect for Defense-Cloud Accelerators

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd in Sydney seeks an experienced engineer to build and scale the Coalition Accelerator portfolio, embedding in live customer delivery and turning field learnings into repeatable patterns.

You will own codebases, CI/CD pipelines, and reference platforms, while working with ProServe, partners, and AWS Security to deliver secure, compliant accelerator solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• 10+ years of IT development or consulting in the software or Internet industries.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including version control workflows, automated testing, code review, CI/CD pipelines and containerisation (Docker, ECS/EKS)

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain accelerator codebases. Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code.
• Embed in live customer delivery. Work alongside ProServe and partner teams on funded engagements to validate patterns, fix what breaks, and build credibility.
• Build and maintain demo and reference platforms. Standing environments that prove the accelerators work and support sales conversations.
• Design and implement automated compliance validation tooling that maps deployed infrastructure to control frameworks and produces auditable evidence.
• Own contribution standards and code quality. Review PRs, enforce ADRs, maintain architectural coherence across country-specific extensions.
• Create technical enablement collateral. Deployment guides, runbooks, architecture walkthroughs, security runbooks, templates, hands-on workshops.
• Drive roadmap delivery. Translate field demand into shipped capability.
• Interface across the collaboration model. Work with ProServe, partners, regional SAs, Tech BDs, and AWS Security.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

ECS/EKS

Version control

Automated testing

Code review

Security and compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GuardDuty

Security Hub

IAM Access Analyzer

KMS

Nitro Enclaves

CloudTrail

EKS

ECS

Kubernetes

EventBridge

Lambda

Step Functions

Job description

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd in Sydney seeks an experienced engineer to build and scale the Coalition Accelerator portfolio, embedding in live customer delivery and turning field learnings into repeatable patterns.

You will own codebases, CI/CD pipelines, and reference platforms, while working with ProServe, partners, and AWS Security to deliver secure, compliant accelerator solutions at scale.