1 Senior AWS Cloud Engineer Infrastructure Engineer
Tender Overview
About this tender
This Tender is invited by the Issuer. Overview The Department of Finance is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support the GovAI program's AWS cloud hosting and platform capability. About GovAI is a Whole of Australian Government initiative supporting the adoption of generative AI across the Australian Public Service through secure hosting and AI platform services. The program is expanding its platform offerings to include AWS cloud capabilities. The Role The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining secure AWS cloud environments, ensuring security controls aligned with the Information Security Manual (ISM) are incorporated throughout the platform lifecycle. The role includes: AWS infrastructure design and management Security and compliance activities Optimisation of cloud services Support for APS projects using AWS services Provision of technical leadership and knowledge transfer Role Requirements Strong experience in AWS cloud engineering, infrastructure as code, DevOps/DevSecOps practices, cloud security, automation, and government or enterprise cloud environments Experience with AWS AI services (such as Bedrock), Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines and AWS certifications will be highly regarded Instructions to Respondents The Department of Finance will not consider or invite additional sellers to this RFQ. Unsolicited emails and requests will not be answered.
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