- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
We are seeking an experienced AWS Platform Engineer with strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD practices. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable AWS environments while ensuring high availability, security, and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available AWS-based platform infrastructure.
- Manage containerized applications running on Amazon ECS (EC2 and/or Fargate).
- Troubleshoot production incidents involving application performance, latency, availability, and infrastructure failures.
- Monitor and optimize ECS clusters, Auto Scaling Groups, load balancers, and cloud resources.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent).
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and releases.
- Configure and manage observability platforms including logging, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for production incidents and implement preventive measures.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve application reliability, scalability, and deployment practices.
- Implement cloud security, governance, and operational best practices.
- Drive platform automation and reduce manual operational activities.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or SRE.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including:
- ECS
- EC2
- ALB/NLB
- CloudWatch
- Auto Scaling
- IAM
- VPC Networking
- Experience managing containerized applications using Docker and ECS/Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of application performance troubleshooting, memory management, and resource optimization.
- Experience investigating production incidents involving:
- High latency
- 5xx errors
- Application crashes
- Memory leaks
- Capacity constraints
- Expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong scripting skills using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, or ELK.
Desired Experience
- Experience with production troubleshooting of ECS workloads and container lifecycle management.
- Knowledge of OOM (Out of Memory) analysis, application tuning, and JVM/Container resource optimization.
- Experience with Blue/Green and Canary deployment strategies.
- Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
- Experience implementing autoscaling strategies using CPU, memory, and application-level metrics.
- Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimization.
SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.
All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
