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