Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Terraform DevSecOps

Build secure cloud platforms that enable teams to deliver at scale.

We're looking for an experienced Platform Infrastructure Engineer with a strong security mindset to join a major government digital transformation program. You'll play a key role in building and evolving a modern platform engineering capability, helping development teams deliver secure, scalable and reliable cloud solutions.

If you're passionate about AWS, Terraform, DevSecOps and cloud security, this is an opportunity to work on large-scale platforms that support critical public services.

What you'll be doing

• Design, build and enhance AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Develop reusable platform modules, standards and secure infrastructure patterns.
• Work closely with Platform, DevSecOps and Engineering teams to improve automation, CI/CD pipelines and developer experience.
• Implement secure-by-default infrastructure, cloud security guardrails and IAM best practices.
• Support infrastructure across multiple environments, including development, test, QA and production.
• Improve platform reliability, consistency and operational excellence through automation.
• Contribute to technical documentation, standards and platform best practices.
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders in a complex enterprise environment.

What you'll bring

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and cloud services.
• Advanced Terraform experience, including reusable modules and state management.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD or similar DevSecOps tooling.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation and version control.
• Strong knowledge of IAM, cloud networking, security groups, permissions and environment segregation.
• Experience implementing security controls within cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to work autonomously while contributing to engineering standards and platform improvements.

Highly regarded

• AWS security services and cloud security best practices.
• Security frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Benchmarks or ASD Essential Eight.
• SAST/DAST, container security, secrets management or policy-as-code.
• Experience working within government or other highly regulated environments.
• Platform Engineering or Internal Developer Platform (IDP) experience.
• Kafka, Confluent or event streaming technologies.

Why apply?

• Work on a high-profile digital transformation program.
• Join a collaborative Platform Engineering team driving modern cloud practices.
• Build secure, scalable platforms using the latest AWS and DevSecOps technologies.
• Influence engineering standards, automation and developer experience across multiple delivery teams.
• Long-term contract opportunity within a complex enterprise environment.

Paxus values diversity and welcomes applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people living with a disability. If you require an adjustment to the recruitment process, including the application form in an alternate format, please contact me on the above contact details.