{"id":496173,"url":"https://alion.io/job/datacom-cloud-engineer-aws","title":"Cloud Engineer - AWS","company":{"id":3438,"name":"Datacom","domain":"datacomgroup.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/datacom","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":90,"open_postings":12,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.417,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":34,"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Auckland, New Zealand","Christchurch, New Zealand","Wellington, New Zealand"],"countries":["NZ"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EC2","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EventBridge","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon S3","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Fargate","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":false},{"name":"CloudFormation","optional":false},{"name":"DynamoDB","optional":false},{"name":"Dynatrace","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"HIPAA","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false},{"name":"ITIL","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Pulumi","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-17T06:44:28Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-17","last_verified_at":"2026-10-25T09:43:46Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":38,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":1,"flags":[],"days_open":37},"description":"About us\nAt Datacom, we combine technology, expertise, and talented people to help organisations thrive in a rapidly changing world. As one of Australasia's leading technology providers, we work with customers across industries to solve real-world problems and deliver meaningful outcomes.\nWhether we're supporting governments, enterprise organisations, or growing businesses, we're committed to creating meaningful outcomes for our customers, communities, and each other.\nOur team\nWe have an excellent AWS engineering opportunity, which is not to be missed! You will be joining a fantastic team in our Public Cloud business, who support each other working collaboratively across our business and locations. This is a chance to be a part of a business and team with both a strong people and customer focus.\nAbout the Role\nAs an AWS Cloud Engineer, you are primarily responsible for delivering projects and will be called upon to leverage your technical knowledge to deliver business outcomes in AWS (be they IaaS, PaaS or other).\nWe are looking for an individual who has a growth mindset, who is always learning, has great interpersonal and communication skills with excellent technical knowledge.\nWhat you’ll do\nAs a Cloud Engineer - AWS you’ll manage customer cloud environments, supporting and transforming AWS technology.\nWhilst 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.\nThis a flexible and varied role working with a diverse range of customers across the cloud transformation spectrum to:\nResponsible for driving operational excellence through automation, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps practices, observability, security governance, and continuous service improvement. \nWorking closely with customers, architects, service delivery teams, and engineers, the successful candidate will lead incident and problem management activities, influence platform strategy, champion AI-enabled operational efficiencies, and contribute to the ongoing evolution of cloud operating models. \nStrong expertise in AWS, cloud-native technologies, ITIL-based service management, automation, and stakeholder engagement is essential, along with experience supporting mission-critical production environments and participating in on-call operational leadership.\nBe a trusted advisor for all things Cloud\nLead and inspire our customers on the benefits of cloud technology, automation, and enabling a DevOps/DevSecOps culture\nEnsure our customers cloud environments remain secure and optimised\nAct as the bridge between application technologies and customer support teams\nProvide enablement and guidance\nThis 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.\nWhat you’ll bring\nExperience in designing, building, deploying, and supporting AWS solutions (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), including but not limited to:\nCode Pipeline builds and Infrastructure as Code tools such as CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform and Pulumi.\nAbility to code Lambda functions, including a knowledge of python.\nFamiliarity with hybrid and multi cloud design e.g. multi-region/zone, scalable, resilient, secure\nTenancy, Account Structure, Control Tower and LZA, SCPs, Tagging and Cost Controls\nStrong knowledge of AWS services, incl. EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, S3, Lambda, SSM Patch Manager, AWS Backup, SQS, etc.\nIdentity management incl. IAM, Identity Center, Roles, STS, MFA, Policy writing\nAWS networking incl. VPC, SecGroups, TGW, ALB/NLB, Route53, CloudFront, WAF, Shield, etc.\nKubernetes, including AWS Fargate.\nCompliance standards and auditing incl. CIS, NZISM, PCI, HIPAA, SecurityHub, etc\nMonitoring, logging and alerting tools and configuration incl. CloudWatch, LogGroups, SNS, EventBridge, webhooks\nCloud native and digital solutions leveraging emerging technologies incl. containers, serverless, data analytics, ML and AI, IoT, API, Micro-services, etc\nExperience with Dynatrace would be a bonus.\nFamiliar with DevOps processes and skilled in tools such as Git and ADO.\nCertification Preferred: AWS Solutions Architect - Associate. \nCulture and benefits\nJoin a team where you'll be supported to grow your career, prioritise your wellbeing, and make a genuine impact. From industry-leading learning and development opportunities to parental leave, wellbeing support, and employee benefits, we're committed to helping our people thrive both professionally and personally\nWe're passionate about creating a workplace where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to do their best work. Whether you're developing new skills, tackling complex challenges, or collaborating with some of the best minds in the industry, you'll be part of a team that values curiosity, innovation, inclusion, and making a genuine difference.\nWhy you will love working here\n· Paid parental leave\n· 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (DataCare)\n· Ongoing learning, certifications, and career development opportunities\n· Access to industry-leading learning platforms and future skills training\n· Recognition programmes that celebrate great work\n· Great employee discounts and financial wellbeing benefits\n· Meaningful work that makes a real impact","description_format":"text","description_chars":5322,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Data Centers & Colocation","Managed IT Services (MSP)","Systems Integrators","Payroll Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-07T05:55:08Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-09-14T02:09:14Z"},{"event":"reopen","at":"2026-09-17T04:33:47Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":36,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.66,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":37,"expected_fill_days":34,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/datacom-cloud-engineer-aws","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/datacom-cloud-engineer-aws.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-25T09:54:56Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":14196,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-26T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3438},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3438"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdatacom-cloud-engineer-aws"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdatacom-cloud-engineer-aws"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdatacom-cloud-engineer-aws"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/datacom-cloud-engineer-aws\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdatacom-cloud-engineer-aws"}]}