AWS DevOps Engineer - Contract

About the role

Hastha Solutions is seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer on a 6-month contract, with possible extension, based in Sydney. The role drives DevOps and monitoring initiatives for a cloud-native AWS platform, including designing monitoring solutions, defining SRE standards, setting SLIs and SLOs and improving platform reliability through proactive monitoring and alerting.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement observability solutions for AWS-based platforms (EKS, Lambda, SNS)
• Define SLIs, SLOs, monitoring standards and alerting strategies
• Build and maintain centralised monitoring solutions using AWS CloudWatch
• Develop dashboards and alerts for engineering, operations and business stakeholders
• Lead incident monitoring, troubleshooting and reliability improvement initiatives
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption for observability deployments
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve platform reliability and operational excellence

Required profile

• Australian or NZ citizens or PR holders only
• Experience with AWS and DevOps

Required skills

• AWS CloudWatch, EKS, Lambda, SNS
• SRE practices (SLI/SLO, incident management)
• Dashboards and alerting; IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation preferred)
• DevOps and cloud operations, root cause analysis and performance monitoring
• Preferred: Grafana, Datadog, Splunk or Dynatrace, and AWS or DevOps certifications