Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer – Azure | AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform

We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing technology team delivering scalable, secure and highly available cloud platforms and applications.

This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on Cloud/DevOps professional with strong experience across Azure DevOps, AWS, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, CI/CD and automation. You will work closely with engineering, architecture and application teams to design, build and optimise modern cloud environments and deployment pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, build and maintain scalable, secure and highly available cloud infrastructure, primarily within AWS.

- Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation and AWS CDK.

- Build, deploy and manage containerised workloads using Docker, Kubernetes and Amazon ECS.

- Design, implement and enhance automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, TeamCity, AWS CodePipeline and GitOps practices.

- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and deployment processes using Python, Bash, PowerShell and Ansible.

- Partner with development teams to enable reliable deployment of applications and microservices across cloud environments.

- Implement monitoring, observability and logging solutions using tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch, DataDog, New Relic, Prometheus and Grafana.

- Troubleshoot complex cloud, infrastructure, application and deployment issues across development and production environments.

- Support cloud security, governance, performance optimisation, resilience and operational best practices.





- Contribute to continuous improvement of DevOps processes, engineering standards, automation frameworks and platform capabilities.

Essential Skills & Experience

- Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and cloud-native architectures.

- Strong experience with Terraform and Terragrunt for Infrastructure as Code.

- Demonstrated experience with Docker and Kubernetes in enterprise environments.

- Strong CI/CD experience using Jenkins, TeamCity, AWS CodePipeline and/or GitOps.

- Experience with configuration management and automation using Ansible.

- Robust scripting or programming capability with Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar languages.

- Good understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs and distributed applications.

- Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability solutions.

- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.

- Experience working with Git-based source control and modern DevOps engineering practices.

Highly Desirable

Experience across some of the following would be advantageous:

- Cloud: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

- IaC: Terraform, Terragrunt, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Ansible

- Containers: Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon ECS

- Programming: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Go, C#, Ruby

- Frameworks: Next.js, React.js, Express.js, Django, FastAPI, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Quarkus

- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Oracle, Informix

- Observability: Splunk, New Relic, CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana

- APIs: REST, SOAP, GraphQL

- Exposure to AI/ML technologies, including PyTorch, PySpark, Pandas, Jupyter Notebook and Large Language Models (LLMs), would be beneficial.

📌 Cloud Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 Nixil
📍 Melbourne