Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
NEC Corporation
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Docklands • Australia
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About the role
- Providing technical direction and leadership for AWS cloud infrastructure hosting platforms within a customer environment.
- Designing, implementing and enhancing standardised AWS service offerings and customer environments, leveraging DevOps and Agile practices.
- Working with Solutions Managers, Architects and Customer Stakeholders on the creation and adoption of AWS roadmaps and strategies to define standard cloud service offerings.
- Participating actively in Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement and Retrospectives to continuously enhance AWS capability.
- Defining and implementing end-to-end AWS cloud operations and delivery processes, leveraging Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines and GitHub-based workflows wherever possible.
- Driving continuous improvement initiatives to ensure high service availability, resilience, security and cost optimisation across AWS environments.
- Leading incident management activities for major AWS-related issues and promoting a proactive operational support model.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer role building and operating enterprise-scale AWS environments.
- 5+ years’ hands-on experience with core AWS services including (but not limited to) EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, EKS/ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch and AWS Organizations.
- Proven experience migrating on-premises infrastructure and workloads to AWS, including assessment, planning, execution and post-migration optimisation.
- Demonstrated experience modernising application workloads within AWS, including re-platforming, refactoring, containerisation, serverless adoption and cloud-native architectural patterns.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (primary) and AWS CloudFormation.
- Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, GitHub Actions (or equivalent DevOps tooling).
- Solid understanding of DevOps methodologies, version control practices, branching strategies and automated testing approaches.
- Experience working within Agile delivery frameworks and actively participating in Sprint-based delivery models.
- Strong knowledge of AWS networking, security architecture, identity federation and cloud governance best practices.
- Experience with cost management, tagging strategies and financial optimisation within AWS.
- Proven ability to work independently within a customer on-site environment and manage stakeholder expectations effectively.
- Scripting capability in at least one language (Python, Bash or similar).
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to engage senior stakeholders on architecture trade-offs, risk mitigation and best practice implementation.
- Understanding and practical application of IT standards such as ITIL.
- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, privacy, ISO27001).
- Demonstrated ability to analyse complex technical challenges and deliver pragmatic, scalable AWS solutions.
Benefits
- Outstanding working environment
- High performance team
- Emphasis on staff satisfaction
- Fantastic corporate culture
- Responsive management team
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSEC2VPCIAMRDSS3EKSECSLambdaTerraform
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementproblem-solvingindependencecontinuous improvementcollaborationadaptabilityanalytical thinkingproactive support