Demonstrate excellent
verbal and written communication skills
, with the ability to present technical information clearly and prepare high-quality technical and operational documentation.
Bring
8+ years of hands-on experience
managing and supporting enterprise-scale, production AWS environments, including
3-4 years of experience with Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and GitHub Actions-based CI/CD
.
Possess
2-3 years of practical DevOps and CI/CD experience
, particularly in designing and managing Kubernetes-focused deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions.
Demonstrate robust capabilities in
monitoring, automation, solution engineering, troubleshooting, and technical leadership
, including the ability to guide and mentor teams of approximately 6-10 engineers.
Hold the following AWS certifications:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Mandatory
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional - Mandatory
Implement and integrate cloud-native and SaaS monitoring solutions including
Amazon CloudWatch, Container Insights, and Application Insights
, with the ability to develop consolidated dashboards and unified operational views.
Experience with APM platforms such as
AppDynamics or New Relic
will be advantageous.
Analyse AWS consumption, usage trends, and major
cost drivers
to identify optimisation opportunities.
Implement cost-reduction measures including
resource rightsizing, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, lifecycle management, data retention strategies, and storage-class optimisation
.
Design and review cloud architectures in accordance with the
AWS Well-Architected Framework
, with particular focus on cost efficiency.
Prepare
cost analysis, forecasts, projections, and governance recommendations
for technical and business stakeholders.
Contribute to project delivery and
RFP / solutioning activities
, providing architecture and technical recommendations aligned with AWS standards.
Exposure to security and compliance frameworks such as
PCI DSS, SOC 2, and ISO *****/ISO ***** series
is preferred, including experience supporting audit and governance requirements.
Key Responsibilities & Experience
Demonstrate excellent
verbal and written communication skills
, with the ability to present technical information clearly and prepare high-quality technical and operational documentation.
Bring
8+ years of hands-on experience
managing and supporting enterprise-scale, production AWS environments, including
3-4 years of experience with Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and GitHub Actions-based CI/CD
.
Possess
2-3 years of practical DevOps and CI/CD experience
,



particularly in designing and managing Kubernetes-focused deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions.
Demonstrate strong capabilities in
monitoring, automation, solution engineering, troubleshooting, and technical leadership
, including the ability to guide and mentor teams of approximately 6-10 engineers.
Hold the following AWS certifications:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Mandatory
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional - Mandatory
AWS Certified Developer – Preferred
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Preferred
Implement and integrate cloud-native and SaaS monitoring solutions including
Amazon CloudWatch, Container Insights, and Application Insights
, with the ability to develop consolidated dashboards and unified operational views.
Experience with APM platforms such as
AppDynamics or New Relic
will be advantageous.
AWS Cost Optimisation
Analyse AWS consumption, usage trends, and major
cost drivers
to identify optimisation opportunities.
Implement cost-reduction measures including
resource rightsizing, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, lifecycle management, data retention strategies, and storage-class optimisation
.
Design and review cloud architectures in accordance with the
AWS Well-Architected Framework
, with particular focus on cost efficiency.
Prepare
cost analysis, forecasts, projections, and governance recommendations
for technical and business stakeholders.
Contribute to project delivery and
RFP / solutioning activities
, providing architecture and technical recommendations aligned with AWS standards.
Exposure to security and compliance frameworks such as
PCI DSS, SOC 2, and ISO *****/ISO ***** series
is preferred, including experience supporting audit and governance requirements.
Technical Requirements – AWS
Extensive hands-on experience across
AWS IaaS and PaaS services
, with architecture knowledge aligned to the expectations of an AWS Solutions Architect – Professional.
Strong practical expertise in
Terraform
for Infrastructure as Code and automated infrastructure provisioning.
Advanced experience managing
Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS
environments.
Experience with
AWS Control Tower, Landing Zones, AWS Organizations, and multi-account cloud environments
.
Strong operational experience supporting
hybrid cloud environments
, high-availability architectures, business continuity,



and disaster recovery solutions.
Extensive BAU support experience across AWS services including:
EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, AWS CLI, RDS
ELB, ALB, NLB, ElastiCache
CloudFormation, Lambda, CloudWatch
Route 53, CloudFront, SNS, Systems Manager
DMS, EKS, ECS, Glue
Workplace environments and OS/resource patching
Experience supporting and optimising
microservices and cloud-native architectures
, with emphasis on security, scalability, resilience, and performance.
Strong scripting capabilities using
AWS CLI, Bash, Python
, or equivalent scripting technologies.
Experience with AWS development and deployment services including
CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
, and automated testing frameworks.
Experience deploying and supporting cloud-native applications, with exposure to
Elasticsearch
or equivalent search technologies.
Strong database support experience across enterprise workloads using
Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Amazon DocumentDB
.
Working knowledge of additional AWS services such as
AppStream, CloudTrail, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, DynamoDB, EFS, FSx, Glue, KMS, Organizations, Step Functions, S3, and Route 53 Resolver
.
Strong hands‐on experience with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
; relevant certification will be an advantage.
Good understanding of
on‐premises-to-AWS migration approaches
, cloud adoption patterns, and cross‐cloud migration strategies.
Strong knowledge of
AWS PaaS capabilities, cloud architecture principles, design standards, and industry best practices
.
Experience with
ECS, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Terraform, CloudFormation
, and other cloud orchestration technologies.
Ability to create and maintain detailed
technical specifications, functional documentation, architecture diagrams, deployment guides, runbooks, and operational procedures
.
Secondary Skills
Good understanding of
SDLC processes
and hands‐on experience with
Jenkins, Kubernetes, and test automation
.
Experience developing automation scripts using
PowerShell, C# cmdlets, Python, PHP
, or similar technologies.
Practical experience with configuration and automation tools such as
Ansible, Puppet, and Chef
.
Ability to automate, configure, validate, and monitor
networking, security controls, routing, IP forwarding, virtual machines, and cloud service roles
.
Working knowledge of
AWS CloudFormation templates
and infrastructure provisioning patterns.
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📌 Aws Technical Lead (New South Wales)
🏢 Silverlink Technologies
📍 New South Wales