Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Brisbane, QLD
Permanent
Full-time

30 days ago

Location: On-site/Hybrid Brisbane | Type: Full-Time PermanentCgov is a clinical governance software company in the hospital and healthcare industry. We are part of the Avant Mutual Group, Australia's leading doctors’ mutual supporting over 90,000 healthcare professionals and students with a range of products and services.About the roleWe’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong AWS experience to help lead the design and rollout of a new cloud infrastructure. This role will play a key part in our growth, involving the transition from an existing hosting setup to a more scalable and flexible AWS environment.You’ll also contribute to building the automation and tooling needed to support client onboarding and platform migration. This is a hands-on, strategic role ideal for someone who thrives on ownership, has deep AWS knowledge, and understands the complexities of SaaS infrastructure and customer migrations.Key responsibilities:

Architect and build a secure, scalable, and high-availability AWS infrastructure to support our SaaS platform.
Lead the end-to-end migration from our current third-party hosting provider to AWS.
Develop processes, tooling, and automation for migrating customer environments and data into our new AWS infrastructure.
Apply hands-on expertise in AWS, Terraform, and Datadog to provision, monitor, and manage cloud environments.
Collaborate with development team to containerize and optimise PHP/MySQL applications for AWS deployment.
Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to support reliable and automated deployments.

Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high performance and availability. * Define security best practices, IAM policies, and compliance procedures across our AWS environment.

Support post-migration operations and continuous infrastructure improvement.
Implement robust database backup and disaster recovery strategies.
Coordinate with current hosting providers and third-party vendors to ensure a smooth and secure transition to AWS.
Act as the technical liaison during the handover process, ensuring continuity and minimal disruption.
Define infrastructure standards, governance processes and documentation to support long-term scalability and maintainability& change management.
Understanding of compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001orSOC 2.
Ability to implement infrastructure controls and audit mechanisms to meet regulatory requirements.
Skilled in creating infrastructure documentation, runbooks, and onboarding guides.

Required skills and experience:

5+ years of experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles with a focus on AWS.
Demonstrated experience planning and executing cloud migrations, especially from third-party hosting providers to AWS.
Deep knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
Strong experience with PHP applications and MySQL in cloud environments.
Proven ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Code Pipeline, or Jenkins.
Proficient with IaCtools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
Solid grasp of containerization (Docker) and AWS orchestration (ECS, EKS).
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
Experience with monitoring and observability using tools such as Datadog.

Preferred skills and experience:

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Similar AWS certification.
Experience migrating multi-tenant SaaS applications and client environments.
Familiarity with Agile workflows and DevSecOps principles.

We have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of others. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you learn and grow in your career.For further information, please contact Sue Allen, Talent Acquisition Business Partner on 0429 404 856.

Avant Mutual Group

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