Jobs / Maurice Blackburn
Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
Maurice Blackburn · Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaOnsite
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior Cloud Engineer owns the architecture, roadmap, and operational health of production AWS environments supporting client-facing systems and sensitive client information. The role builds governed multi-account AWS foundations, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and secure AI-agent operations, while improving networking, observability, incident response, recovery, security, reliability, and cloud cost.
Benefits
Supportive and collaborative work environmentInclusive leaders and progressive people policies
Qualifications
- Experience designing, operating, and improving production AWS environments, including multi-account architecture and governance
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills, including reusable modules, state and drift management, and safe deployments
- Technical depth in IAM, networking, encryption, and secrets management
- Experience with observability, incident response, recovery testing, and cloud security
- Strong CI/CD, scripting, and automation skills, including testing, policy controls, approvals, and rollback
- Hands-on experience with AI agents or agentic engineering and understanding of data leakage and unsafe tool-use risks
- Track record of measurable gains in reliability, efficiency, security, or cloud cost
- A degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Responsibilities
- Own AWS architecture, technical roadmap, and continuous improvement
- Build and operate scalable, multi-account AWS foundations using infrastructure as code
- Design and troubleshoot networking, DNS, certificates, and connectivity across AWS and firm platforms
- Build agent-assisted security monitoring and conduct authorised testing for prompt injection and unsafe tool use
- Improve observability, incident response, and recovery; convert recurring issues into tested automation
- Create secure AI-agent environments with controls for data, tools, network access, resources, and audit trails
- Build CI/CD and self-service pathways for safe, efficient delivery
- Reduce manual effort and cloud costs, and demonstrate savings
Skills
AWSIAM
Certifications
AWS certifications
Degrees
Computer Science, IT, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Industry
Legal services
Relocation
No