Cloud DevOps Engineer
Salary: ** Competitive hourly rate, NO agency fee
Role : Cloud DevOps Engineer- Brisbane based
- Long term engagement, up to 5-year total contract period
- Hybrid, 50 % WFH
- Competitive hourly rate, No agency fees
We’re seeking an experienced Cloud DevOps Engineer to help build and maintain secure, reliable cloud delivery foundations for a large government department in Brisbane.
You will design and build CI/CD pipelines, implement Infrastructure as Code, champion DevSecOps/GitOps practices, automate cloud environments, and uplift monitoring/observability and operational resilience.
This is a hands-on engineering role working across delivery, architecture, security and technology stakeholders in an agile environment.
Required skills
- Strong AWS experience (e.g., VPC, serverless, ECS, IAM, etc.)
- Strong IAM knowledge (design and implementation)
- DevOps / SRE capability: CI/CD, observability, incident response, reliability practices
- Terraform (IaC) expertise: provisioning, state management, locking, and best practices
- Scripting skills: Python and Bash (Java also valued; Node.js a bonus)
- Advanced Git skills: branching strategies, PR workflows, reviews
- Strong engineering practices (e.g., modularisation, DRY principles, maintainable code/IaC patterns)
- Security-focused delivery including secrets management best practices
- Solid networking fundamentals: DNS, CIDR/subnets, firewalls, load balancing
**Application closing 27th July
Discover our exclusive contractor benefits at Peoplebank
- Peoplebank offers a suite of benefits for our direct contractors. Save with car leasing through Autopia and utilise salary packaging for superannuation and approved items.
- Benefit from PeopleSense Employee Assistance Program for emotional support.
- Seamlessly transition between contracts with our Next Job Program.
- Multiple pay runs a week
- Genuine contractor care - regular touch points with a dedicated account manage
Peoplebank and Leaders IT are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone belongs. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need adjustments to the recruitment process due to your circumstances, please let us know—we’re here to support you.