About the Company : At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechron’s progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & DevOps, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms.

Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 14,000+, and has 55 offices in 20 countries within key global markets.

For more information on the company, please visit our website: www.synechron.com

Note: A minimum of 7+ years of experience is required for this role.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build and maintain cloud guardrails and preventative controls for centralised governance: SCPs/RCPs, AWS Organizations, Control Tower and Policy as Code.
- Define and implement observability standards: logging, monitoring, metrics, tagging and alerting.
- Build and maintain cloud assurance and reliability frameworks across golden AMIs, backups, patching, DR, reliability, and configuration compliance.
- Prioritize and drive remediation of cloud risks and security misconfigurations, balancing urgent fixes with planned work.
- Lead cloud security posture and maturity uplift through automation and compliance monitoring, including guardrails for emerging AI services.




- Contribute to cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices by improving cost visibility and identifying cost anomalies to help drive ongoing savings.

Skills :

- 6-7+ years of experience and ideally 5+ hands-on in AWS, with proven capability across cloud engineering and governance, ideally as a Senior Engineer.
- Robust hands-on AWS background across core services, including:
- Identity & governance: IAM, Organizations, Control Tower, Config, CloudTrail
- Networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, security groups/NACLs
- Compute & containers: EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS
- Storage & data: S3, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB
- Security: Security Hub, GuardDuty, KMS, WAF, Firewall Manager
- Observability: CloudWatch (Logs, Metrics, Insights), Splunk
- Experience with multi-account strategy, account vending, landing zone tooling.
- Experience implementing preventative controls, including IAM permission boundaries, Policy as Code, centralized network security (AWS Firewall Manager) and golden AMIs / hardened image pipelines (e.g. EC2 Image Builder).
- Experience with the AWS Well-Architected Framework, applying its pillars to assess and uplift cloud environments.
- Strong cloud security fundamentals (least privilege, segmentation, encryption, secrets), risk and vulnerability management, and familiarity with CSPM tooling.
- Strong IaC, coding and automation: Terraform and/or CloudFormation, Python, boto3, Bash.
- Hands-on CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar) building and maintaining automated pipelines.
- Cloud FinOps experience with tools such as Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer and Cost and Usage Reports, analysing spend and delivering savings.
- Awareness of AI governance and guardrails is a plus (e.g. Amazon Bedrock access, data protection)
- One or more relevant AWS certifications (e.g. Solutions Architect / DevOps / Security Specialty).

📌 Cloud Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 Synechron
📍 Melbourne