Senior AWS Engineering Lead / Tech Lead

Job Requisition ID: 35914 

Senior AWS Engineering Lead / Tech Lead

• Are you an AWS Cloud expert looking for a new adventure? Look no further! We're hiring in Canberra.
• Our Cloud & Engineering team is on the hunt for passionate Senior Manager who is eager to make a positive impact with innovative solutions.
• Our Cloud Engineering team at Deloitte focuses on enabling our client’s end-to-end journey from on-premises or co-location to the Cloud. 

Our Work 

We help our clients recognise the transformational capabilities as an opportunity for business enablement by improving their agility and resilience, identifying opportunities to reduce IT operations spend through automation resulting in competitive advantage. We accelerate our clients towards a technology-driven future, leveraging vendor solutions and Deloitte-developed software products, tools, and accelerators.

About the team 

We pride ourselves on our team of diverse, high performing professionals who are talented, supportive, inclusive and social - and who are at the heart of our success. Deloitte's Cloud Engineering is at the forefront of technology. We then use cloud technologies to implement world-leading innovative solutions that drive exceptional business value.

We are passionate about Cloud technology and love our work. We love to automate anything and everything and send everything to the cloud where possible. We are always looking to get ahead of the curve and constantly looking to update our skill sets.

We listen to each other and pride ourselves in delivering the best possible solution and most importantly, we love to have fun.

What your day will look like:

• Technical leadership: Provide guidance to development teams. This includes performing code reviews, specification reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and meeting all functional and non-functional requirements. 
• Client interaction and collaboration: Serve as the primary contact for clients and key stakeholders, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery. 
• Requirement analysis and solution design: Collaborate with clients and our broader programme team to understand solution requirements. Architect distributed applications on AWS to meet these requirements. 
• Implementation and testing: Undertake hands-on implementation of cloud native and modern integration solutions and conducting robust integration testing. 
• Troubleshooting and optimisation: Provide expert assistance in troubleshooting technical issues, optimising performance, and ensuring security and compliance of cloud solutions. 
• Contribute to the broader Cloud & Engineering practice: Beyond your project commitments, we encourage our tech leads to contribute to the broader engineering community. This could be through knowledge sharing, documenting best practices, developing internal accelerators, scoping and solutioning for new engagement opportunities, and more.

Soft & Interpersonal Skills:

• Previous experience in a consulting or client-facing role. 
• Leadership and mentoring skills with a desire to grow others and oneself. 
• Ability to build authentic and trusted relationships with clients and extended teams.
• Ability to lead implementation projects and work collaboratively with other IT teams to implement new cloud technologies
• Committed to creating a culture of collaboration, teamwork, and inclusion. 
• Have successfully managed projects and teams utilising Agile approaches. 
• Proven track record delivering projects in Federal Government and/or Defence environments
• Experience managing project financial oversight.

Technical Skills:

• Significant experience leading and delivering complex cloud transformation projects on AWS
• Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience with tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, or AWS CDK
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools (AWS CodeCommit/Build/Pipeline, GitLab, or similar)
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash or other high-level languages
• Understanding of AWS network configuration and security best practices (VPC, Security Groups, IAM roles/policies)
• Experience deploying and managing AWS Landing Zones
• Strong experience with serverless (Lambda) and event-driven architectures on AWS and deep understand of both SQL and NoSQL database solutions.
• Experience with Containerisation and operating Kubernetes (e.g. AWS EKS, RedHat OpenShift)
• Deep understanding of AWS/Cloud security concepts and experience applying the ACSC Information Service Manual (ISM) to AWS cloud environments.
• Relevant industry certification a must (AWS Professional/Specialty, Cisco, ISC2)

Due to the nature of the role candidates based out of Canberra with Australian Citizenship and NV1 clearance would be highly desired for this role.

Why Deloitte?   

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.   

We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.   

We prioritise flexibility and choice. At Deloitte, you get trust on Day 1. We know our people get their best work done when they’re in control of where and how they work, designing their work week around their client, team and personal commitments. 

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package. 

Next Steps 

Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now, we’d love to hear from you!

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By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.