AWS DevOps Engineer – Contract (Sydney)

About the role

We are seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer for a 6‑month contract based in Sydney. The role focuses on designing and implementing observability solutions for a cloud‑native AWS platform to improve reliability and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement observability solutions for AWS services such as EKS, Lambda and SNS.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, monitoring standards and alerting strategies.
• Build and maintain centralized monitoring 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 adoption for observability deployments (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to enhance platform reliability and operational excellence.

Required profile

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer working with AWS.
• Ability to define and implement SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs and incident management.
• Experience with root‑cause analysis and performance monitoring.
• Eligibility: Australian or New Zealand citizen or permanent resident.

Required skills

• AWS CloudWatch
• Amazon EKS
• AWS Lambda
• Amazon SNS
• Observability & Monitoring
• SRE practices (SLI/SLO, Incident Management)
• Dashboarding & Alerting
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• DevOps & Cloud Operations
• Root‑Cause Analysis & Performance Monitoring