Technical Lead – AWS Cloud Engineer

Peoplebank; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangement

Job summary

Peoplebank is seeking a Technical Lead - AWS Cloud Engineer in Brisbane with hands-on leadership to design, implement, and support secure, scalable AWS environments. You will collaborate with architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver cloud platform solutions.

The role requires strong AWS, Terraform, and IaC experience, plus deep knowledge of HA, DR, and cloud security, and the ability to drive design workshops and operational readiness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Cloud Infrastructure/Platform Engineering/DevOps.
• 3+ years in Technical Lead or Senior Engineer roles.
• Strong AWS infrastructure expertise across EC2, VPC, IAM, Route53, CloudWatch, S3, Load Balancers, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager, ECR.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery for cloud and platform initiatives.
• Translate business and technical requirements into detailed solution designs.
• Drive technical design workshops and engineering discussions.
• Design and implement AWS infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop detailed Low-Level Designs (LLDs), infrastructure documentation, and operational models.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code best practices.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Support incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to disaster recovery planning, testing, and operational readiness activities.
• Work with architects, security teams, project managers, engineers, and vendors.
• Provide technical leadership and recommendations on platform decisions.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Platform Engineering

DevOps

Monitoring & Observability

Stakeholder Engagement

Cloud Security

Job description

Brisbane | Hybrid Working Arrangement We're looking for a highly capable Technical Lead - AWS Cloud Engineer to play a key role in delivering strategic cloud and platform solutions. This is a hands‑on leadership position where you'll work closely with architects, engineers, project teams, and business stakeholders to design, implement, and support secure, scalable, and resilient AWS environments.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead technical delivery for cloud and platform initiatives.
• Translate business and technical requirements into detailed solution designs.
• Drive technical design workshops and engineering discussions.
• Design and implement AWS infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop detailed low-level designs (LLDs), infrastructure documentation, and operational support models.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code best practices.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Support incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to disaster recovery planning, testing, and operational readiness activities.
• Work closely with architects, security teams, project managers, engineers, and vendors.
• Provide technical leadership and recommendations on platform and technology decisions.

Essential Experience

• 8+ years of Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering experience.
• 3+ years in a Technical Lead, Platform Lead, Senior Cloud Engineer, or Senior Engineering role.
• Strong AWS infrastructure expertise across services such as:
  • EC2
  • VPC
  • IAM
  • Route53
  • CloudWatch
  • S3
  • Load Balancers
  • Secrets Manager
  • Systems Manager
  • ECR
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud solutions.
• Strong understanding of high availability, resilience, disaster recovery, and cloud security principles.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident management.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Amazon EKS and Kubernetes experience.
• CI/CD pipeline development and automation.
• GitOps and ArgoCD.
• Kafka and event-driven architectures.
• Databricks or large-scale data platforms.
• API platforms and microservices.
• Experience within large enterprise or regulated environments.
• Platform Engineering and SRE practices.

About You

You are a self-starter who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and can independently drive outcomes with minimal supervision. You are comfortable leading technical discussions, influencing stakeholders, and balancing strategic thinking with hands‑on engineering.

Peoplebank and Leaders IT are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone belongs. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need adjustments to the recruitment process due to your circumstances, please let us know—we’re here to support you.