AWS DevOps Engineer - Contract - Sydney

Requirements

Seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer AWS to drive DevOps and monitoring initiatives for a cloud-native AWS platform. The role involves designing monitoring solutions, defining SRE standards, establishing SLIs/SLOs, and improving platform reliability through proactive monitoring and alerting.

• Design and implement observability solutions for AWS-based platforms (EKS, Lambda, SNS).
  


• Define SLIs, SLOs, monitoring standards, and alerting strategies.
  


• Build and maintain centralised monitoring solutions using AWS CloudWatch.
  


• Develop dashboards and alerts for engineering, operations, and business stakeholders.
  


• Lead incident monitoring, troubleshooting, and reliability improvement initiatives.
  


• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption for observability deployments.
  


• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance platform reliability and operational excellence.
  

• AWS CloudWatch, EKS, Lambda, SNS
  


• Observability & Monitoring
  


• SRE Practices (SLI/SLO, Incident Management)
  


• Dash boarding & Alerting
  


• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation preferred)
  


• DevOps & Cloud Operations
  


• Root Cause Analysis and Performance Monitoring
  

• Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, or similar monitoring tools
  


• AWS and/or DevOps certifications