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Cloud Engineer

Exclaim ITBrisbane, Brisbane🇦🇺Australia

Why this role stands out

Accelerate your career in this high-impact AWS Cloud Engineer role, where you will drive automation and scalable infrastructure solutions within a dynamic, large-scale public sector environment. You will thrive in this position if you are a proactive problem-solver with strong Terraform and scripting expertise who values the flexibility of a hybrid work model. Apply today to sharpen your cloud architecture skills and make a significant contribution to high-availability services in a collaborative, professional team.

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeFull Time
Work modeHybrid
LocationBrisbane, Brisbane, Australia
DynamoDBAWSActive DirectoryPowerShellPythonTerraformAzureLinuxWindows ServerIAM

Job description

About the role

Step into a hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer contract within a large, complex public-sector environment. You will support high-availability services, deliver automation uplift, and partner with delivery teams via a matrix model.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and deliver secure, scalable AWS and hybrid-cloud services
  • Resolve incidents, service requests, defects, and performance issues
  • Build automation via Terraform and scripting, plus serverless components
  • Provide technical input for plans, estimates, risks, and delivery steps
  • Maintain clear documentation for support, audit, and service continuity
Highly desirable criteria
  • Recent hands-on AWS delivery across EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, AWS Organisations, IAM; automation via Terraform, PowerShell, Python; serverless and messaging via Lambda, SQS; strong fault-find skill across AWS and hybrid environments.
Desirable criteria
  • Active Directory and Windows Server 2016/2019, Azure AD; awareness of the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM); AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB); Linux admin; AWS Admin certification; exposure to Exchange / Exchange Online; Queensland Government experience.
Skills and experience
  • Proven cloud ops + project delivery in a complex ICT environment, strong stakeholder comms, sound security mindset, and a practical approach to reliability and service health.

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