Cloud Engineer - AWS

Our purpose

Here at Datacom we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.

About the Role

Do you have a passion for making a difference by turning the imaginable into reality?

Are you interested in enabling Aotearoa to the thrive and shape the future?

Our Cloud Engineer - AWS are doing just that as trusted advisors providing expertise in cloud transformation and optimisation.

As a Cloud Engineer - AWS you’ll manage customer cloud environments, supporting and transforming AWS technology.

Whilst solving our customers business challenges, you’ll provide enablement not only in the technology but also in modern ways of working to support its use.

This a flexible and varied role working with a diverse range of customers across the cloud transformation spectrum to:

• Be a trusted advisor for all things Cloud
• Lead and inspire our customers on the benefits of cloud technology, automation, and enabling a DevOps/DevSecOps culture
• Ensure our customers cloud environments remain secure and optimised
• Act as the bridge between application technologies and customer support teams
• Provide enablement and guidance

This is an operational role, and involves an on-call roster for afterhours support. This role can be located in any Datacom NZ office, ideally Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch.

About you:

You will be passionate about cloud transformation, automation and solving customer challenges.

You’ll have a strong communication and collaboration skills and understand the business benefits and of cloud technologies. You are able to take ownership of issues and work with the team to find resolutions.

Ideally you would hold all three certifications in AWS at the Associate level. Even higher certifications, including in particular the AWS Security Specialty, would be looked upon favourably. In addition to strong AWS and DevOps technical skills and experience you will need a commitment to the role and success, a willingness to own problems, and an ability to relate to colleagues and customers. Plus, you'll be familiar with DevOps processes and skilled in tools such as Git and ADO.

Experience in designing, building, deploying, and supporting AWS solutions (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), including but not limited to:

• Code Pipeline builds and Infrastructure as Code tools such as CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform and Pulumi.
• Ability to code Lambda functions, including a knowledge of python.
• Familiarity with hybrid and multi cloud design e.g. multi-region/zone, scalable, resilient, secure
• Tenancy, Account Structure, Control Tower and LZA, SCPs, Tagging and Cost Controls
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, incl. EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, S3, Lambda, SSM Patch Manager, AWS Backup, SQS, etc.
• Identity management incl. IAM, Identity Center, Roles, STS, MFA, Policy writing
• AWS networking incl. VPC, SecGroups, TGW, ALB/NLB, Route53, CloudFront, WAF, Shield, etc.
• Kubernetes, including AWS Fargate.
• Compliance standards and auditing incl. CIS, NZISM, PCI, HIPAA, SecurityHub, etc
• Monitoring, logging and alerting tools and configuration incl. CloudWatch, LogGroups, SNS, EventBridge, webhooks
• Cloud native and digital solutions leveraging emerging technologies incl. containers, serverless, data analytics, ML and AI, IoT, API, Micro-services, etc
• Experience with Dynatrace would be a bonus.

Why Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.