Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS

What’s the role?

The Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS plays a key role in leading the design, delivery and evolution of secure, scalable AWS cloud platforms, setting engineering standards, driving strategic outcomes and ensuring reliable, compliant and cost-effective platform capabilities across the enterprise.

Provide hands-on technical leadership across AWS, with strong expertise in EKS, leading the design of scalable, secure and resilient container platforms

Own the end-to-end delivery of cloud platform initiatives, ensuring effective incident management, continuous improvement and operational excellence

Drive engineering excellence through adoption of IaC, CI/CD, DevOps practices and security-by-design aligned to regulatory standards

Lead and mentor engineering teams, building capability in cloud-native and Kubernetes practices while fostering a strong team culture

Partner with stakeholders across architecture, security and product to align solutions, manage risk and ensure platform governance and compliance

What do I need?

Deep expertise in Amazon EKS, including cluster design, operations, scaling, upgrades and troubleshooting

Strong hands-on experience with AWS services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda and EventBridge

Proven knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures, including networking, observability, security and multi-cluster environments

Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation practices, particularly Terraform

Proven track record operating enterprise-scale, highly available cloud platforms with strong CI/CD and DevOps capability

Strong understanding of cloud security, compliance and regulated environments, including performance, cost optimisation and SRE practices

Demonstrated technical leadership, stakeholder engagement and team capability uplift, with relevant certifications (AWS, ITIL) and experience in regulated industries advantageous

Why join us?

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!

Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.

Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.

Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

Create your future today

We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

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