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Location: On-site/Hybrid Brisbane or Melbourne | Type: Full-Time Permanent

Cgov is a clinical governance software company in the hospital and healthcare industry. We are part of the Avant Mutual Group, Australia's leading doctors' mutual supporting over 90,000 healthcare professionals and students with a range of products and services.

About the Role
We're looking for aSenior DevOps Engineerwith strong AWS experience to help lead the design and rollout of a new cloud infrastructure. This role will play a key part in our growth, involving the transition from an existing hosting setup to a more scalable and flexible AWS environment.

You'll also contribute to building the automation and tooling needed to support client onboarding and platform migration. This is a hands-on, strategic role ideal for someone who thrives on ownership, has deep AWS knowledge, and understands the complexities of SaaS infrastructure and customer migrations.

Key responsibilities:

• Architect and build a secure, scalable, and high-availability AWS infrastructure to support our SaaS platform.
• Lead the end-to-end migration from our current third-party hosting provider to AWS.
• Develop processes, tooling, and automation for migrating customer environments and data into our new AWS infrastructure.
• Apply hands-on expertise in AWS, Terraform, and Datadog to provision, monitor, and manage cloud environments.
• Collaborate with development team to containerize and optimise PHP/MySQL applications for AWS deployment.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to support reliable and automated deployments. Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high performance and availability.
• Define security best practices, IAM policies, and compliance procedures across our AWS environment.
• Support post-migration operations and continuous infrastructure improvement.
• Implement robust database backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Coordinate with current hosting providers and third-party vendors to ensure a smooth and secure transition to AWS.
• Act as the technical liaison during the handover process, ensuring continuity and minimal disruption.
• Define infrastructure standards, governance processes and documentation to support long-term scalability and maintainability& change management.
• Understanding of compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001orSOC 2.
• Ability to implement infrastructure controls and audit mechanisms to meet regulatory requirements.
• Skilled in creating infrastructure documentation, runbooks, and onboarding guides.
  
  

Required skills and experience:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles with a focus on AWS.
• Demonstrated experience planning and executing cloud migrations, especially from third-party hosting providers to AWS.
• Deep knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Strong experience with PHP applications and MySQL in cloud environments.
• Proven ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Code Pipeline, or Jenkins.
• Proficient with IaCtools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Solid grasp of containerization (Docker) and AWS orchestration (ECS, EKS).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with monitoring and observability using tools such as Datadog.
  
  

Preferred skills and experience:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Similar AWS certification.
• Experience migrating multi-tenant SaaS applications and client environments.
• Familiarity with Agile workflows and DevSecOps principles.
  
  

We have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of others. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you learn and grow in your career.

For further information, please contact Sue Allen, Talent Acquisition Business Partner on

Why work at Avant?

At Avant, our people are the centre of everything we do for our members. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you to make a difference, learn, and grow in your career.

We value our people by offering an inclusive workplace with a diverse range of benefits, flexible working options, career development, and internal mobility opportunities. Our flexible working arrangements are designed to enable genuine work-life balance.

Your development is our priority and we have a variety of learning and development programs that will support you in your career.

We offer support to our people via Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Health and Wellbeing programs, Tertiary Education Sponsorship and Support.

We have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of others.

For further information, please contact our Careers team at

Please note: Avant Mutual is a vaccinated employer. Prior to the commencement of your employment by Avant, you are required to be fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus or have a medical certificate stating that you cannot receive a Covid-19 vaccination for valid medical reasons.Seniority level

• Seniority levelNot Applicable

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• Job functionEngineering and Information Technology
• IndustriesInsurance

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