IT Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: $6,500 – $7,000 per month

About the role

Be part of the Cloud Infrastructure/security team to plan, develop, and support infrastructure/security services for the agency's application systems. Provide consultancy to application teams on the infrastructure and security design, planning, and implementation of infrastructure solutions and architecture.

Key responsibilities

• Strengthen infrastructure security, monitoring, observability, and overall operational resilience

• Resolve incidents, service requests, and operational issues to maintain service availability

• Manage vendors in the delivery of infrastructure setup, operations, and security patching for Government Commercial Cloud (GCC)

• Attend regular meetings with vendors and internal teams to review operational matters

• Perform remediation of ICT audit findings and ensure familiarity with Government ICT compliance and ICT incident management plan/process

• Plan and implement cloud infrastructure on AWS in accordance with GCC guidelines, including the provisioning and management of resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform

• Ensure infrastructure deployments comply with security best practices, including vulnerability management, access control, and government ICT security policies

• Perform IT security assessments, audits, and the remediation of findings

• Conduct security awareness training sessions

About you

• Degree or diploma in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent qualification

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in managing and supporting infrastructure/security projects

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in application design and deployment across cloud and on-premises environments

• Sound knowledge of cloud, server, network, security, and data centre hosting environments

• Familiar with Agile Development process, CI/CD, DevOps concepts, tools (Gitlab, Github, Ansible etc) and how automated security testing can be incorporated into CI/CD pipelines

• Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g. EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM) and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform

• Familiarity with cloud security frameworks and best practices, including CIS benchmarks or equivalent government security standards

• Relevant certifications preferred (e.g. AWS Solution Architect Associate or higher, AWS DevOps Engineer)

• Experience in working with Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) preferred