Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Brisbane CBD 6 month Contract Queensland Government

Join a major Queensland Government digital transformation program delivering secure, cloud-native platforms that support millions of Queenslanders. You'll work within a high-performing Agile engineering team designing, building and supporting enterprise AWS infrastructure using modern DevOps practices and cloud-native technologies.

This is an opportunity to work on meaningful digital services while helping shape the future of government platforms across AWS.

The Role

You will provide senior technical leadership across AWS Platform Engineering and DevOps, designing secure, scalable and resilient cloud environments while supporting multiple product teams delivering customer-facing digital services.

You'll work across serverless technologies, container platforms, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code, collaborating closely with Product Managers, Developers and Solution Architects.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and support enterprise AWS cloud platforms
• Build scalable serverless and containerised solutions
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK
• Implement secure CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Support AWS landing zones and multi-account environments
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership
• Improve platform reliability, observability and automation
• Work within Agile product delivery teams

Skills & Experience

You'll ideally bring experience across:

• Enterprise AWS architecture
• EKS, ECS, Fargate and Lambda
• AWS CDK (TypeScript)
• GitHub Actions, CodePipeline and CodeDeploy
• Infrastructure as Code
• DevOps and Platform Engineering
• Cloud networking and security
• CloudWatch and CloudTrail
• AWS workload migrations
• API platforms and Digital Identity
• Container technologies
• Agile delivery environments

If you're looking for a technically challenging AWS engineering role working on large-scale cloud platforms, we'd love to hear from you.