Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer: DevSecOps Focus

Are you a highly technical leader ready to own the strategy and hands-on execution for a secure, scalable AWS environment? This is a Principal-level role where you will guide a talented team of engineers and directly influence the security and compliance posture of a mission-critical platform for our client. If you champion automation, embed security as a foundational element, and have deep expertise in AWS services, this is your next challenge.

As the Team Leader for the Cloud Platform team, you will lead a group of skilled engineers in shaping and delivering robust, secure, and efficient solutions exclusively on the AWS platform. Your primary goal is to enable our Development teams to extend and enhance their ability to support the client today and into the future.

You will foster a dynamic, high-autonomy team culture built on trust and shared accountability. This role requires a leader comfortable navigating technical ambiguity and skilled at driving DevSecOps maturity across the entire AWS ecosystem.

• AWS Platform Strategy: Design, implement, and maintain the core AWS architecture (VPC, IAM, Organizations, Security Hub, GuardDuty) to ensure security, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Security & Compliance Leadership: Drive a strong DevSecOps mindset, embedding security controls and Policy as Code (PaC) directly into CI/CD pipelines and IaC (e.g., using Terraform/CloudFormation, OPA). Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements (e.g., APRA).
• Automation Excellence: Champion modern engineering practices, driving the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and self-service capabilities using tools like Terraform, AWS CDK, and native AWS services (CodePipeline, CodeBuild).
• Team & Capability Uplift: Lead and mentor the platform team, coaching senior engineers and tech leads to evolve ways of working and develop technical leadership.
• Cost Management: Own cloud cost management and optimisation, leveraging tools like AWS Cost Explorer and native services to ensure efficient resource utilisation.
• Technical Partnership: Partner with Development Leadership to provide strategic and technical direction on evolving, migrating, or modernising systems within the AWS Cloud.
• Incident & Resolution: Lead the resolution of technical issues and incidents, coordinating across teams to ensure timely, effective remediation, and root cause analysis.

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant technical experience in the AWS ecosystem, or at least 2 years in a Team Leader/Technical Lead role within a similar environment.
• Expert, hands-on proficiency with core AWS services (e.g., VPC, EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM).
• Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), preferably using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation/CDK.
• Proven experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment on AWS.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles and embedding automated security testing (SAST/DAST) and governance into development workflows.
• Demonstrated capability in creating, documenting, implementing, and continuously improving operational processes, policies, and runbooks.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills for technical teams.

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional or AWS Certified Security - Specialty certification.
• Experience with container orchestration using Amazon EKS (Kubernetes) or Amazon ECS.
• Familiarity with financial services regulatory requirements, such as APRA's prudential standards.
• Experience working within Agile/SCRUM project management frameworks.

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