AWS Security Solution/Engineering Specialist - Baseline OR NV1

About The Role
The role is responsible for designing and implementing platform and security controls across AWS environments, supporting both traditional and containerized applications. It focuses on delivering enterprise solutions that balance security and risk while ensuring the maintainability and supportability of the platform.

Working within a DevSecOps and Agile delivery model, the role collaborates closely with application and architecture teams to support the full delivery lifecycle from design and build through to release, operations, and continuous improvement.

The role contributes to the security aspects of solution design, leveraging services such as AWS Fargate, Elastic Container Service (ECS), Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora, EventBridge, Kinesis Data Streams, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and Database Migration Service (DMS) to deliver scalable, secure, and integrated solutions.

The role embeds security into platform design, delivery pipelines, and operational processes, providing technical leadership and assurance that solutions align with enterprise architecture, security frameworks, and whole-of-government requirements.

Our Ideal Job Seeker
Our ideal candidate is an experienced platform and security professional who can design and implement enterprise-grade solutions across AWS environments. They will demonstrate:

- Proven experience designing and implementing secure cloud-based platforms supporting both traditional and containerized workloads
- Strong ability to balance security, risk, maintainability, and supportability when developing platform solutions
- Experience with AWS-native services, with hands-on exposure to some or all of the following:
- AWS Fargate
- AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon Aurora (including primary databases and read replicas)
- Amazon EventBridge
- AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)




- AWS Kinesis Data Streams
- AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT)
- AWS Security Token Service (STS)

- Strong understanding of event-driven and API-led architectures and integration patterns
- Experience working within Agile and DevSecOps delivery models, contributing across the full application and platform lifecycle
- Ability to align solutions with enterprise architecture standards, security controls, and governance requirements such as PSPF, ISM, and Essential Eight
- Experience embedding security into DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automated controlsl
- Robust skills in vulnerability management, monitoring, and operational security response, including incident and problem resolution
- Ability to provide technical leadership, assurance, and pragmatic advice to resolve complex platform and security challenges
- A proactive approach to continuous improvement, including evaluation of technologies, tools, and processes to uplift platform capability
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence secure delivery outcomes across multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience implementing observability capabilities (e.g., dashboards, monitoring, logging) to support proactive compliance monitoring, detection of unauthorized access, and retrospective investigations.
- Experience delivering structured knowledge transfer and capability uplift to teams through hands-on demonstrations, on-the-job training, and targeted mentoring or buddy arrangements.

Location: Brisbane, Melbourne, or Wollongong.

Paxus values diversity and welcomes applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people living with a disability. If you require an adjustment to the recruitment process, including the application form in an alternate format, please contact me on the above contact details.

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📌 AWS Security Solution/Engineering Specialist - Baseline OR (Queensland)
🏢 Paxus
📍 Queensland