AWS Senior Cloud Engineer

Date: 14 Aug 2025

Location:

Sydney, NSW, AU

Department: Technology & Transformation

Description:

Job Requisition ID: 39034

Unlock your future in cloud computing—join us to shape tomorrow's technology and drive innovation on a global scale.

Flexible work arrangements – work in a way that suits you best, including part-time options

Mentoring programs – receive support and coaching to progress your career

Recognition culture to celebrate milestones and discounts at hundreds of retailers

What will your typical day look like?

A typical day in Deloitte's Cloud Engineering team begins with standups to align on priorities, progress, and blockers, where you'll be tasked with leading a team of engineers to implement AWS solutions that deliver real, tangible client outcomes, in line with well architected design principles. Throughout the day you'll align with client stakeholders through regular check-ins, and progress the technical delivery of technology outcomes through your technical expertise and breadth of experience, and working with your engineering pod to deliver quality outcomes to our clients.

Client interaction and collaboration: Serve as the primary contact for clients and key stakeholders, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery.

Requirement analysis and solution design: Collaborate with clients and our broader programme team to understand solution requirements. Architect distributed applications on AWS to meet these requirements.

Implementation and testing: Undertake hands-on implementation of cloud native and modern integration solutions and conducting robust integration testing.

Troubleshooting and optimisation: Provide expert assistance in troubleshooting technical issues, optimising performance, and ensuring security and compliance of cloud solutions.

About the team

We pride ourselves on our team of diverse, high performing professionals who are talented, supportive, inclusive and social - and who are at the heart of our success. Deloitte's Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering is at the forefront of technology. We then use cloud technologies to implement world-leading innovative solutions that drive exceptional business value.

We are passionate about Cloud technology and love our work. We love to automate anything and everything and send everything to the cloud where possible. We are always looking to get ahead of the curve and constantly looking to update our skill sets.

We listen to each other and pride ourselves in delivering the best possible solution and most importantly, we love to have fun.

Enough about us, lets talk about you.

An Engineering lead role requires broader leadership, strategic oversight, and proven capability in guiding teams and managing client relationships across cloud projects

Experience across the design and delivery of secure AWS architectures in alignment with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Experience and comfort working within multi-cloud delivery, multi-cloud architectures and multi-vendor technology landscapes.

Experience working in complex stakeholder environments across developers, application teams, platform engineers, cyber security teams, strategy and technology leadership, to delivering technology solutions in line with stakeholder requirements.

Expertise in AWS services with hands-on implementation and workload migration experience.

Experience delivering data platforms and data integrations using AWS products.

Experience with serverless, micro-serviced, event-driven architectures on AWS such as Lambda, Airflow, SQS, API Gateway, S3, EventBridge.

Proficiency in automation and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, and scripting (Python, Bash) within AWS.

Strong understanding of CI/CD processes leveraging AWS tools (CodePipeline, CodeBuild) and common CICD tooling such as Azure DevOps.

Strong understanding of automation and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and scripting (Python, Bash) in AWS environments.

Strong understanding of security concepts as it applies to cloud technology such as Identity Access management (IAM), encryption in transit and at rest, network access control, and secure application delivery using DevSecOps principles.

Experience with containerisation and orchestration using AWS ECS, EKS, and Docker.

Effective troubleshooting and incident response using AWS monitoring tools like CloudWatch and CloudTrail.

Expertise across AWS networking concepts such as VPCs, subnets, security groups, VPC endpoints, transit gateways and VPC peering.

Applied understanding of the use of AI technologies in delivering client outcomes.

Commitment to AWS security best practices and compliance frameworks.

Clear technical documentation and communication skills tailored to AWS solutions.

Collaborative teamwork with cross-functional groups in agile AWS project environments.

Client-facing experience delivering AWS technical demos and solution presentations.

Relevant AWS certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer) validating expertise.

Strong foundational knowledge of traditional IT infrastructure, including data center operations, compute/storage/networking architectures, and virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter

Experience designing and managing virtualized environments, and migrating workloads from on-premises VMware or Hyper-V environments to the cloud

Familiarity with legacy-to-cloud transformation strategies and hybrid infrastructure models bridging on-prem and cloud-native systems

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We're always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.

We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone's perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.

We prioritise flexibility and choice. At Deloitte, you get trust on Day 1. We know our people get their best work done when they're in control of where and how they work, designing their work week around their client, team and personal commitments.

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.