Build secure cloud platforms that enable teams to deliver at scale.

We're looking for an experienced Platform Infrastructure Engineer with a strong security mindset to join a major government digital transformation program. You'll play a key role in building and evolving a modern platform engineering capability, helping development teams deliver secure, scalable and reliable cloud solutions.

If you're passionate about AWS, Terraform, DevSecOps and cloud security , this is an opportunity to work on large-scale platforms that support critical public services.

What you'll be doing

- Design, build and enhance AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Develop reusable platform modules, standards and secure infrastructure patterns.
- Work closely with Platform, DevSecOps and Engineering teams to improve automation, CI/CD pipelines and developer experience.
- Implement secure-by-default infrastructure, cloud security guardrails and IAM best practices.
- Support infrastructure across multiple environments, including development, test, QA and production.
- Improve platform reliability, consistency and operational excellence through automation.
- Contribute to technical documentation, standards and platform best practices.
- Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders in a complex enterprise environment.

What you'll bring

- Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and cloud services.
- Advanced Terraform experience, including reusable modules and state management.
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD or similar DevSecOps tooling.




- Solid understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation and version control .
- Robust knowledge of IAM, cloud networking, security groups, permissions and environment segregation .
- Experience implementing security controls within cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Excellent troubleshooting, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to work autonomously while contributing to engineering standards and platform improvements.

Highly regarded

- AWS security services and cloud security best practices.
- Security frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Benchmarks or ASD Essential Eight .
- SAST/DAST, container security, secrets management or policy-as-code.
- Experience working within government or other highly regulated environments.
- Platform Engineering or Internal Developer Platform (IDP) experience.
- Kafka, Confluent or event streaming technologies.

Why apply?

- Work on a high-profile digital transformation program.
- Join a collaborative Platform Engineering team driving modern cloud practices.
- Build secure, scalable platforms using the latest AWS and DevSecOps technologies.
- Influence engineering standards, automation and developer experience across multiple delivery teams.
- Long-term contract opportunity within a complex enterprise environment.

Paxus values diversity and welcomes applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people living with a disability.

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📌 Platform Infrastructure Engineer (Brisbane City)
🏢 Paxus
📍 Brisbane City