AWS Cloud Engineer (Contract)
Location: Perth (2–3 days onsite)
Duration:6 months (potential to extend)
Rate: $ /day + GST
Level: Senior / Lead
About the Company
Our client is a fast-growing cloud consulting organisation specialising in AWS, with a strong reputation for technical craftsmanship and high-quality delivery. With a national and international footprint and significant recent growth, they are continuing to expand their Perth presence due to strong project demand.
You'll be joining a close-knit, high-performing engineering team working on complex, modern cloud platforms in a collaborative consulting environment.
About the Role
This role is focused on providing senior-level AWS cloud expertise across a shared cloud platform supporting multiple workloads. You'll play a key role in solution design, platform reliability, and the onboarding of new workloads, while contributing to longer-term platform sustainability and improvement.
Key responsibilities include:
* Providing hands-on AWS Cloud expertise to ensure reliable, secure and scalable platform operations
* Architecting and designing cloud solutions for both platform services and application workloads
* Contributing to longer-term platform strategy, support models and technical standards
* Participating in backlog prioritisation, planning and delivery of platform initiatives
* Supporting the scoping, design and execution of new workloads onto the cloud platform
* Collaborating closely with engineers, data scientists and delivery stakeholders
Technical Environment
This role is highly hands-on and suited to an experienced cloud engineer comfortable working across infrastructure, automation and application support.
* AWS (CloudFormation, EC2/EFS, IAM, Lambda, EKS/Kubernetes)
* Core services: S3, RDS, SQS/SNS, CodeBuild
* Linux (Ubuntu), Docker, Packer
* Python automation; Dash / Streamlit apps
* R / R Shiny (desirable)
* Azure AD / Entra ID (app & API permissions)
About You
* Strong hands-on experience as a Senior or Lead AWS Cloud Engineer
* Proven background designing and operating production AWS platforms
* Comfortable working across infrastructure, automation and application-facing services
* Experience supporting data-heavy or data science platforms is highly regarded
* Strong communication skills and a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset
Please Note: Candidates must be based in Perth, WA with full working rights to be considered for this position.
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