Senior Cloud Engineer- AWS

Plays a key role in designing and delivering technical solutions aligned to the customer’s transformation goals. This is a hands-on position, working closely with both internal teams and customer engineers to contribute to detailed design and produce high-quality engineering artefacts. A Senior Engineer is expected to independently deliver outcomes while also providing guidance and support to Engineers and Associate Engineers.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing AWS infrastructure and platform services
• Experience building automated cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Ability to design highly available, scalable, and resilient architectures across AWS services
• Experience designing secure networking architectures including VPC design, segmentation strategies, and controlled connectivity patterns
• Experience building automated deployment pipelines and integrating infrastructure provisioning into CI/CD workflows
• Strong understanding of cloud-native operational practices including observability, automation, and reliability engineering
• Experience embedding security controls into cloud architecture and engineering workflows
• Strong understanding of identity-first security models including role-based access control, federation, and least privilege design
• Experience implementing preventative and detective controls to manage configuration drift, privilege escalation, and insecure infrastructure patterns
• Experience designing secure data handling patterns including encryption strategies, key management, and data access controls
• Experience enabling continuous cloud security visibility and compliance validation through automated policies and configuration monitoring
• Understanding of threat modelling and risk-based security design in cloud-native environments
• Experience contributing to security architecture reviews and remediation of cloud misconfigurations
• Bonus points: An understanding of CNAPP and CSMP concepts, and hands on experience with related tools like Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Orca etc.

What We're Looking For

• Strong hands-on AWS engineering capability
• Security-first mindset
• Passion for automation and cloud-native engineering
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Ability to work in fast-paced consulting or delivery environments

Life at Versent

We're a diverse team of motivated humans who think outside the box and strive to deliver what others might consider impossible. At Versent we truly care about our people and put real focus on cultivating a culture of learning, collaboration and growth.  We provide our teams with the space, trust, and support, to deliver the best work of their careers. To enable this, we have a culture that places a high value on continual feedback, excellence, and invention anchored in customer success.

We also offer our team:

• Flexibility: We give you the freedom to excel, providing as much autonomy and flexibility around when you work so you can manage your time in a way that best suits you to get the job done.

• Learning: We are passionate about continuous improvement and care about you investing in and developing your craft. Our Craft 180 Program is a holistic strategy for ongoing, meaningful skill and capability development with an ultimate goal to create an environment where people can learn and contribute in different ways to develop, practice and become masters of their craft.

• Access to Benefits That Fit Your Life: From salary packaging and purchased leave to novated leasing options, we offer a range of benefits designed to suit different lifestyles and priorities. There’s something for everyone.

• Health & Wellbeing Programmes: We focus on you as a whole person, with wellbeing initiatives that are to support you mentally, physically, emotionally and financially.

• Connection: Regular social activities across your team and the organisation.

• Recognition: We offer several reward & recognition programmes to acknowledge the amazing work that you do!

• Career opportunity: We provide the opportunity to work on diverse projects and initiatives that enable you to create a brilliant career.

At Versent, we don't adhere to a one-size-fits-all hiring strategy. We understand that you might not fulfill all the criteria for this position. Our celebration of diverse perspectives isn't just a value, it's a way to gain an edge. If you believe this opportunity is where you can thrive, don't be shy and apply! 

If you require any accommodations throughout the interview process, please get in touch with us by emailing careers@versent.com.au.