- Contract or Permanent Opportunity

- $700 plus GST or $135K including Super

Synechron is a leading global digital consulting firm, providing innovative technology solutions for business. Our expertise in AI, Consulting, Data, Digital, Cloud & DevOps and Software Engineering, delivers customized, end-to-end solutions that drive business value and growth.

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and talented Business Analyst to join our team and work with our key client in a financial industry The 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.

What we're looking for:

- 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.

- Solid 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