Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

Sydney | Permanent | Hybrid

This is a Staff-level role for someone who still wants to build.

We’re working with a business looking for a Platform Engineer to take ownership of a complex AWS environment and help shape what the platform looks like next.

You’ll be working across an existing AWS estate that needs to be simplified, consolidated and improved, with a strong focus on ECS, Fargate, Terraform, CI/CD, security, networking and automation.This is not a people-management role. You’ll be expected to be 100% hands on, making technical decisions and solving difficult infrastructure problems yourself.

What you’ll work on

• Own the design and evolution of the AWS platform

• Consolidate and migrate AWS accounts and environments

• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform

• Work across ECS and Fargate

• Improve CI/CD and infrastructure deployment patterns

• Automate repeatable platform and operational work

• Improve IAM, security, networking and cloud governance

• Review existing infrastructure and decide what should be retained, migrated, rebuilt or replaced

• Improve infrastructure testing, reliability and operational resilience

• Troubleshoot complex production and platform issues

• Set engineering standards and influence technical direction across the environment

What we’re looking for

Ideally, you’ll bring:

• Deep hands-on AWS experience

• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code

• Production experience with ECS / Fargate

• Experience with AWS networking, IAM, security and multi-account environments

• CI/CD and infrastructure automation experience

• Scripting or programming capability using Python, Bash or similar

• Experience testing and troubleshooting infrastructure

• Experience with AWS migrations, consolidation or major cloud rebuilds

• The ability to make senior technical decisions while remaining hands-on

That means writing Terraform modules, building automation, working with deployment pipelines, scripting, testing infrastructure changes and troubleshooting AWS environments.

Why this role?

There is a significant amount of engineering work to solve.

You’ll be joining an environment where there is an opportunity to review what exists today, simplify the AWS estate, improve the foundations and influence how the platform is built and operated going forward.

It should suit a Staff or Principal-level Platform Engineer who wants technical ownership without moving away from hands-on engineering.