Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS

What’s the role?

An exciting opportunity is available for a Cloud DevOps Engineer to join the Enterprise and Computer Storage Services team within Group Technology, where you will be responsible for building and operating scalable AWS cloud platforms, enabling DevOps practices, driving automation, and ensuring secure, reliable, and cost-efficient application delivery, with a strong emphasis on hands-on experience with Amazon EKS, platform stability, security, and performance.

Build and manage AWS cloud infrastructure, including EKS-based container platforms, ensuring scalability, resilience, and high performance

Develop and maintain Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code and automate deployments and operational workflows

Design and manage CI/CD pipelines while enabling standardised DevOps practices and deployment patterns

Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and SRE practices to support reliability, incident management, and platform stability

Apply cloud security best practices, ensure compliance, and optimise cost and performance through efficient resource utilisation

What do I need?

Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda) and proven capability in designing cloud-native architectures

Mandatory experience with Amazon EKS and a solid understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals

Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) with experience automating environment provisioning and deployments

Demonstrated experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines for both application and infrastructure delivery

Strong knowledge of containerisation (Docker, microservices) and observability tools (e.g. CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana), including production support and incident management

Solid understanding of cloud security (IAM, RBAC, secrets management, network security), along with experience in cost optimisation and performance tuning in AWS environments

Relevant certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect), experience within ITIL-aligned environments or regulated industries, and strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in high-pressure scenarios

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.

If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find more information and contact details on our FAQs and how to contact us page , under the ‘Diversity, sustainability and flexibility’ section.