AWS Cloud Engineer — Transform Cloud, Automate & Optimize

Datacom; Wellington; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (DS

Ongoing learning and certifications

Industry-leading learning platforms

Recognition programmes

Employee discounts

Job summary

Datacom is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to deliver projects across AWS IaaS and PaaS, combining technical depth with strong collaboration. You’ll manage customer cloud environments, drive automation, and champion modern practices in a flexible, client-focused role.

We value growth mindset, ongoing learning, and excellent communication as you support mission-critical production environments and engage with architects, service delivery teams, and engineers across locations.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering AWS solutions (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) for production environments.
• Familiarity with multi-cloud/hybrid designs and secure architectures.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC.
• Experience with IaC tools and automation; on-call operational leadership may be required.

Responsibilities

• Manage customer cloud environments and deliver AWS-based projects.
• Lead incident and problem management and influence platform strategy.
• Collaborate with architects, service delivery and engineers to enable DevOps practices.

Skills

AWS cloud engineering

DevOps practices

Infrastructure as Code

Python scripting

Cloud security

Education

AWS Solutions Architect - Associate

Tools

CloudFormation

CDK

Terraform

Pulumi

Docker/Kubernetes

Dynatrace

Job description

Datacom is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to deliver projects across AWS IaaS and PaaS, combining technical depth with strong collaboration. You’ll manage customer cloud environments, drive automation, and champion modern practices in a flexible, client-focused role.

We value growth mindset, ongoing learning, and excellent communication as you support mission-critical production environments and engage with architects, service delivery teams, and engineers across locations.