Cloud Platform Engineer - Enterprise Data Platforms

Cloud Platform Engineer – Enterprise Data Platforms

Leading Australian Bank | Sydney | Hybrid Working

Are you an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer with a passion for building secure, scalable, and automated data platforms on AWS?

EGC are partnering with a leading Australian bank undergoing significant investment in its enterprise data and cloud capabilities. This is an opportunity to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for evolving a large-scale Enterprise Data Platform that supports critical business and data initiatives across the organisation.

Working within a modern engineering environment, you will play a key role in designing and enhancing cloud-native platform services, improving operational efficiency, and enabling secure access to data through best-practice governance, automation, and infrastructure solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and support AWS-based cloud and data platform services.
• Develop secure and scalable data access solutions across enterprise data environments.
• Drive cloud platform modernisation and automation initiatives.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Enhance data governance, security, authentication and authorisation controls.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to improve platform capabilities.
• Evaluate new technologies through proof-of-concepts, performance testing and cost optimisation activities.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native operational practices.

Required Experience

• 8+ years' experience designing, building and supporting cloud-native platforms on AWS.
• Strong hands-on experience with:
• AWS Lake Formation
• AWS IAM
• AWS Identity Centre
• Amazon S3
• Amazon Redshift
• Amazon Athena
• Proven experience implementing secure data access and governance frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security, authentication and authorisation models.
• Expertise with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Experience working with modern data platform architectures, including:
• Data Lakes
• Analytics Platforms
• Metadata Management
• Data Governance
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud automation tooling.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable Experience

• Banking or financial services experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Exposure to cloud cost optimisation and platform engineering practices.
• Understanding of data governance and regulatory requirements within highly regulated environments.

What's on Offer

• 2-year program and potentially long term opportunity
• Work with one of Australia's leading banking organisations.
• Large-scale enterprise cloud and data platform programme.
• Modern AWS technology stack.
• Collaborative, engineering-led culture – Agile delivery
• Flexible hybrid working arrangements.
• Opportunity to influence the future direction of enterprise data platforms.

If you're an experienced AWS Platform Engineer, Data Platform Engineer, or Cloud Engineer with strong Lake Formation, Terraform, and cloud governance experience, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now or contact Matthew Drake at EGC for a confidential discussion.