Senior Cloud Engineer

PRIMARY DETAIL

• Competitive Salary plus 17% employer’s superannuation contribution and annual leave loading

• Hybrid Full time, 1 Year FTC Role

• Join a friendly, collaborative team located at Macquarie University’s Wallumattagal Campus in North Ryde

The Role

Macquarie University is hiring for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to act as a technical leader and mentor within our talented team of cloud engineers. This is a key hands-on role for our technology transformation. You will be responsible for helping to drive our evolution from a traditional operations model to a modern, secure, and agile DevSecOps culture.

The ideal candidate will be a deep technical expert, passionate about embedding security into every stage of the development lifecycle. You will contribute to a product and service design focus, designing and implementing reusable patterns and best practices that empower our cloud team. Your expertise will be crucial in building, maintaining, and optimising robust, scalable, and secure hybrid infrastructure, primarily on AWS, while fostering collaborative relationships across our Platforms, Networking, and Application teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, providing technical guidance, paired-programming, code reviews, and support for professional development

• Contribute to the roadmap for DevSecOps initiatives, aligning with broader business objectives

• Architect and implement secure, cost-effective solutions on AWS using services such as EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, VPC, and GuardDuty

• Write, review, and maintain high-quality, reusable Terraform code for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure

• Implement and refine our source control strategy in GitHub, including branching models, access controls, and repository security

• Integrate and manage security tools within the CI/CD pipeline to provide automated security testing and feedback to developers

• Act as a senior technical escalation point for complex cloud and security incidents

• Collaborate with architects to design secure-by-default cloud patterns and reference architectures

• Lead security reviews, threat modelling exercises, and compliance audits from a technical implementation perspective

• Monitor service health, performance, and cost, implementing observability tooling and optimising where necessary

• Present findings from user feedback and analytics to stakeholders to gain buy-in for service enhancements

About You

• Minimum 5+ years proven hands-on experience in a senior cloud, DevOps, or DevSecOps engineering role

• Demonstrable experience as a key contributor to an organisation's transition from a traditional IT operations or SysAdmin model to a mature DevSecOps culture

• Expert-level knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its core infrastructure, security, and management services

• Hands-on experience building and managing infrastructure with Terraform in a production environment

• Proficiency in using and administering GitHub, including creating and managing CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions

• A deep understanding of DevSecOps principles, "start-left" security, CI/CD, and automation best practices

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to build strong cross-functional relationships

• A strategic product and service design mindset, with experience creating reusable patterns and delivering platform capabilities

Desirable

• Experience working within a public sector body or a tertiary education institution

• Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services (e.g. Azure DevOps, Virtual Machines)

• Industry certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies (e.g.Kubernetes, EKS and Docker)

• Experience using user feedback mechanisms (e.g. surveys) and support analytics to measure and improve services

About Us 

Macquarie is a university engaged with the real and often complex problems and opportunities that define our lives. Celebrating its 60th year in 2024, it was established as a bold experiment in higher education and designed to break from educational traditions to work in tandem with industry. Institutionally we strive for the extraordinary by challenging convention and embracing different views. Our pioneering culture has encouraged and inspired students, staff and collaborators to break free from conventional thinking, and to actively shape the complex issues that define the future of humanity. 

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Applications Close:

16/11/2025 11:59 PM

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