Senior Cloud AWS Engineer Location: Brisbane

Initial 6 month contract with view to extend

Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of digital services across Queensland Government. The Senior Cloud AWS Engineer will be responsible for delivering secure, modern, and highly‑scalable AWS and DevOps platforms — providing expert guidance, technical leadership, and hands‑on engineering across a range of critical services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and support of cloud infrastructure and DevOps services using AWS technologies.
• Act as a technical authority, translating business needs into well‑crafted cloud architecture and solution designs.
• Guide platform engineering efforts — from onboarding new customers and assessing emerging technologies, to creating reusable DevOps patterns.
• Mentor and support a team of technical specialists, driving a culture of risk awareness, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver fit‑for‑purpose cloud and DevOps solutions.
• Maintain and evolve environments using secure CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline), container services (EKS, ECS, Fargate), and infrastructure‑as‑code (AWS CDK, TypeScript).
• Participate in after‑hours support as required.

About You

• Extensive experience with AWS infrastructure and modern DevOps practices in enterprise, high‑security environments.
• Strong track record delivering secure, cloud‑native and containerised platforms.
• Skilled in CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC), and platform automation.
• Deep knowledge of AWS services such as Lambda, EC2, ECS/EKS, Fargate, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, API Gateway, and associated networking.
• Familiarity with digital identity platforms, data‑sharing APIs, and developer portals.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• An inspiring technical leader, adept at mentoring teams and fostering collaboration in an agile setting.

Applciations are through this link, please upload your CV in word format, or email any enquires tp [email protected] quote REF#245367

Your interest in this role will be treated with the strictest confidence

Please note for all Australian based contract and temporary roles, the pay rate is inclusive of mandatory 25% casual loading. This excludes permanent and fixed term roles.