Location: On-site/Hybrid Brisbane | Type: Full-Time Permanent
Cgov is a clinical governance software company in the hospital and healthcare industry. We are part of the Avant Mutual Group, Australia’s leading doctors’ mutual supporting over 90,000 healthcare professionals and students with a range of products and services.
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong AWS experience to help lead the design and rollout of a new cloud infrastructure. This role will play a key part in our growth, involving the transition from an existing hosting setup to a more scalable and flexible AWS environment.
You’ll also contribute to building the automation and tooling needed to support client onboarding and platform migration. This is a hands-on, strategic role ideal for someone who thrives on ownership, has deep AWS knowledge, and understands the complexities of SaaS infrastructure and customer migrations.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles with a focus on AWS.
• Demonstrated experience planning and executing cloud migrations, especially from third-party hosting providers to AWS.
• Deep knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Strong experience with PHP applications and MySQL in cloud environments.
• Proven ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Code Pipeline, or Jenkins.
• Proficient with IaCtools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Solid grasp of containerization (Docker) and AWS orchestration (ECS, EKS).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with monitoring and observability using tools such as Datadog.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Similar AWS certification.
• Experience migrating multi-tenant SaaS applications and client environments.
• Familiarity with Agile workflows and DevSecOps principles.
  We have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of others. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you learn and grow in your career.
  For further information, please contact Sue Allen, Talent Acquisition Business Partner on 0429 404 856

• Architect and build a secure, scalable, and high-availability AWS infrastructure to support our SaaS platform.
• Lead the end-to-end migration from our current third-party hosting provider to AWS.
• Develop processes, tooling, and automation for migrating customer environments and data into our new AWS infrastructure.
• Apply hands-on expertise in AWS, Terraform, and Datadog to provision, monitor, and manage cloud environments.
• Collaborate with development team to containerize and optimise PHP/MySQL applications for AWS deployment.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to support reliable and automated deployments.

Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high performance and availability.

• Define security best practices, IAM policies, and compliance procedures across our AWS environment.
• Support post-migration operations and continuous infrastructure improvement.
• Implement robust database backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Coordinate with current hosting providers and third-party vendors to ensure a smooth and secure transition to AWS.
• Act as the technical liaison during the handover process, ensuring continuity and minimal disruption.
• Define infrastructure standards, governance processes and documentation to support long-term scalability and maintainability& change management.
• Understanding of compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001orSOC 2.
• Ability to implement infrastructure controls and audit mechanisms to meet regulatory requirements.
• Skilled in creating infrastructure documentation, runbooks, and onboarding guides.