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Michael Page

Senior AWS Devops Engineer

Michael Page
Australia · Full-time · Mid-Senior

  • Brisbane based candidates only 6 month rolling day rate contracts
  • 60/40 office vs home hybrid environment

About Our Client

This opportunity is with a public sector organisation focused on delivering essential services and technology-driven solutions. As a small-sized department, they are committed to leveraging modern tools to enhance public service delivery and operational efficiency.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure following best-practice architecture and security frameworks.
  • Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CodePipeline, or Jenkins.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
  • Automate operational processes, environment provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring.
  • Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and performance through proactive optimisation and incident response.
  • Collaborate with application teams, data teams, and security to support delivery across multiple initiatives.
  • Maintain and improve cloud governance, identity/access controls, and compliance policies.
  • Support containerised workload deployments using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, deployment, and runtime issues.
  • Provide expert advice on cloud engineering, DevOps practices, and emerging technology improvements.

The Successful Applicant

Essential Skills & Experience

  • 10+ years experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
  • Extensive hands on AWS experience, including services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and Route53.
  • Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
  • Proven experience building robust CI/CD pipelines and release automation workflows.
  • Strong scripting capability in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
  • Experience operating production workloads in containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Strong understanding of networking, including VPC design, routing, security groups, load balancers, and DNS.
  • Demonstrated ability to design for resilience, scalability, monitoring, logging, and alerts.
  • Practical experience with DevSecOps practices, including AWS security, threat mitigation, and vulnerability management.
  • Experience working within government environments or highly regulated sectors (desirable).

What's On Offer

  • Day rate contract
  • Exciting opportunity to contribute to a new public sector department.
  • Temporary role offering interesting pieces of work

This is your chance to make a meaningful impact in the technology space within the public sector. Apply now to take the next step in your career as a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer!

Contact: Harley Logan

Quote job ref: JN-022026-6941172

Key Skills

Ranked by relevance

aws cloud devops infrastructure as code terraform docker cicd configuration management kubernetes gitlab ci python gitlab bash s3
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Posted
Feb 11, 2026
Type
Full-time
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
Australia

Industries

IT Services IT Consulting Computer Network Security Software Development

Categories

Engineering Information Technology

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