Datacom

Cloud Engineer - AWS

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5 hours ago
Christchurch, New Zealand +2 moreSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, manage, and support customer AWS cloud environments across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
  • Drive operational excellence through automation, infrastructure as code, DevOps practices, observability, security governance, and continuous service improvement.
  • Lead incident and problem management activities and contribute to platform strategy and cloud operating model evolution.
  • Advise and enable customers on cloud technology, automation, DevOps/DevSecOps culture, and modern ways of working.
  • Maintain secure, optimized, resilient, and compliant customer cloud environments.
  • Provide on-call operational leadership and after-hours support.
  • Bridge application technology teams, customer support teams, architects, service delivery teams, and engineers.

Requirements

  • Strong experience designing, building, deploying, and supporting AWS solutions in production environments.
  • Experience with AWS CodePipeline and infrastructure as code tools including CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, and Pulumi.
  • Ability to develop AWS Lambda functions using Python.
  • Knowledge of hybrid and multicloud design, scalable and resilient architectures, AWS account structures, Control Tower, LZA, SCPs, tagging, and cost controls.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS services including EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, S3, Lambda, SSM Patch Manager, AWS Backup, and SQS.
  • Experience with identity management, IAM, Identity Center, roles, STS, MFA, and policy writing.
  • Knowledge of AWS networking including VPC, security groups, Transit Gateway, ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudFront, WAF, and Shield.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, including AWS Fargate.
  • Knowledge of compliance standards and auditing including CIS, NZISM, PCI, HIPAA, and Security Hub.
  • Experience configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting with CloudWatch, log groups, SNS, EventBridge, and webhooks.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native technologies, containers, serverless, data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, IoT, APIs, and microservices.
  • Familiarity with DevOps processes and tools such as Git and ADO.
  • Strong technical knowledge, customer and stakeholder engagement skills, communication skills, and experience supporting mission-critical production environments.
  • AWS Solutions Architect - Associate certification is preferred.
  • Dynatrace experience is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace with the role available from Datacom offices in Auckland, Wellington, or Christchurch.
  • On-call roster with after-hours operational support responsibilities.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme through DataCare.
  • Ongoing learning, certifications, career development, and access to industry-leading learning platforms.
  • Recognition programmes, employee discounts, and financial wellbeing benefits.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBAWSGitKubernetesPythonSAP Cloud PlatformTerraform

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