Platform data engineer aws

Start: ASAP
Where: Sydney, NSW
Type: Max-Term, 6mth Contract
Style: Hybrid; approx 3 days per week in office + WFH
Salary: up to $200,000 pkg (inc super) depending on experience

We're partnering with a high‐growth organisation undertaking a major cloud transformation and building out cutting‐edge data and platform capabilities from the ground up. This opportunity is for a Platform Data Engineer to take full ownership of AWS infrastructure, data platforms, and migration initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure in greenfield environments.
• Implement and manage AWS services including EC2, S3, Lambda, Glue, RDS, VPC, IAM, ECS.
• Own the full infrastructure lifecycle: configuration, deployment, optimization, and monitoring.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure‐as‐code using Terraform or CloudFormation.

Cloud Migration Delivery

• Lead and execute end‐to‐end on‐premise to AWS migration projects.
• Plan and implement migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor).
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks during migration.
• Ensure smooth cutover with minimal disruption.

Data Engineering

• Build, manage, and optimize data pipelines and ETL processes.
• Work with structured and unstructured data across diverse systems.

DevOps & Automation

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and applications.
• Select and manage CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline).
• Automate deployment processes and environment provisioning.

Architecture, Resilience & Security

• Design high‐availability, multi‐AZ architectures.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery strategies.
• Apply cloud security best practices (IAM, encryption, network controls).
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and manage remediation.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with technical and non‐technical stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements into scalable cloud architectures.
• Provide expert guidance on AWS best practices and solution design.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong hands‐on AWS engineering experience across infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Proven track record delivering end‐to‐end cloud migration projects.
• Experience working in greenfield environments.
• Expertise with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Deep understanding of high availability, multi‐AZ architectures, and disaster recovery.
• Solid data engineering background including ETL and pipeline development.
• Practical experience with cloud security and vulnerability management.
• Ability to operate as a self‐managed, independent engineer with full ownership.

Note: All applicants must hold Australian citizenship due to security requirements.