IT Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Be part of the Cloud Infrastructure/security team to plan, develop, and support infrastructure/security services for the agency's application systems. Provide consultancy to application teams on the infrastructure and security design, planning, and implementation of infrastructure solutions and architecture.

Key responsibilities

• Strengthen infrastructure security, monitoring, observability, and overall operational resilience
• Resolve incidents, service requests, and operational issues to maintain service availability
• Manage vendors in the delivery of infrastructure setup, operations, and security patching for Government Commercial Cloud (GCC)
• Attend regular meetings with vendors and internal teams to review operational matters
• Perform remediation of ICT audit findings and ensure familiarity with Government ICT compliance and ICT incident management plan/process
• Plan and implement cloud infrastructure on AWS in accordance with GCC guidelines, including the provisioning and management of resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform
• Ensure infrastructure deployments comply with security best practices, including vulnerability management, access control, and government ICT security policies
• Perform IT security assessments, audits, and the remediation of findings
• Conduct security awareness training sessions

About you

• Degree or diploma in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent qualification
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in managing and supporting infrastructure/security projects
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in application design and deployment across cloud and on-premises environments
• Sound knowledge of cloud, server, network, security, and data centre hosting environments
• Familiar with Agile Development process, CI/CD, DevOps concepts, tools (Gitlab, Github, Ansible etc) and how automated security testing can be incorporated into CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g. EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM) and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
• Familiarity with cloud security frameworks and best practices, including CIS benchmarks or equivalent government security standards
• Relevant certifications preferred (e.g. AWS Solution Architect Associate or higher, AWS DevOps Engineer)
• Experience in working with Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) preferred