Systems Specialist Cloud

Run Stronger. Evolve Faster. Perform Smarter with NRI  
  
Ready to shape what’s next?  At NRI, we turn technology into intelligence, delivering solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Join our team of 3,500+ local experts backed by a global network of 16,000 team members and work on projects that truly make a difference for Australia’s leading organisations. 
  
Our Managed Services team ensures businesses operate at peak efficiency, resilience, and scale. Join us to manage and optimise IT landscapes for leading organisations, delivering seamless, reliable, and measurable outcomes every day.
  
Senior Cloud Engineer with AWS Certifications required to join our growing Managed Services team to work with key NRI customers
 
What you’ll do
  
Cloud platform operations

• Administer and support AWS environments (accounts, networking, compute, storage, IAM).
• Maintain platform health, availability and performance through proactive monitoring and tuning.
• Manage environment provisioning, configuration and lifecycle (dev/test/prod), including patching and upgrades.

Security and compliance

• Implement and operate security controls: IAM (least privilege), MFA, KMS/encryption, secrets management, logging and audit trails.
• Support vulnerability management, remediation and security event response in partnership with security teams.
• Assist with compliance evidence and controls operation (e.g., access reviews, logging, retention)

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Build and maintain IaC for repeatable provisioning (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK).
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform configuration where applicable.
• Automate operational tasks (scripting, runbooks, self-service, standard patterns).

Monitoring, incident and problem management

• Configure observability: metrics, logs, traces and alerts (CloudWatch/CloudTrail and tooling such as Datadog/Splunk
• Participate in on-call and respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive problem remediation.
• Produce and maintain operational documentation: runbooks, support procedures, knowledge articles.

Service improvement & cost management

• Identify reliability and performance improvements; reduce toil and manual interventions.
• Support cost governance (tagging, budgets, optimisation recommendations, reserved capacity/savings plans)
• Contribute to standardisation (golden AMIs, baseline modules, hardened configurations).

What we’re looking for
  
Core AWS capability

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including: VPC, IAM, EC2, ALB/NLB, Route 53, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, KMS.
• Practical networking knowledge: subnets, routing, security groups/NACLs, DNS, VPN/Direct Connect concepts.

Systems and operations

• Linux/Windows administration experience, including patching, hardening and troubleshooting.
• Experience with backup/restore, DR concepts, and operational readiness practices.
• Familiarity with ITIL-aligned incident/problem/change processes.

Automation and tooling

• IaC: Terraform and/or CloudFormation (CDK desirable).
• Scripting: Python and/or Bash/PowerShell.

Why Join Us: 

• Deliver tangible business impact through operational excellence.
• Work with cutting-edge tools and AI-enabled platforms.
• Be part of a high-performing, client-obsessed team that values growth and innovation.

Take the next step with us. Apply now and make a real impact. 
Your skills. Our impact. Together unstoppable. At NRI, you’ll work on meaningful projects, tackle complex challenges, and see the tangible difference your expertise makes. We value diverse experiences and perspectives, creating an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing workplace. Don’t worry if you don’t meet every requirement listed - we prioritise attitude and capability, and you might be the perfect fit for this role or another within NRI. 
 
NRI Australia & New Zealand is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages applications regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.