Software Engineer - AWS/Python

Job Description

Direct message the job poster from NCS Group Australia Talent Acquisition Business Partner @ NCS Group | Tech Recruitment At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together. We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity, and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow. Job Description As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for coding and maintaining the cloud services. This role involves monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing cloud resources in order to maintain service availability, uptime, and performance. You will also write APIs and Microservices using Python. You will be working with cloud providers to manage and configure cloud resources, monitoring performance and availability of cloud resources, setting up automatic scaling, load balancing, and disaster recovery strategies, and performing service updates and patches. You will optimize the performance of our services through team collaboration of service and software configurations. Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions. You will work closely with other operations staff, engineers, and client services to ensure cloud services are available 24 x 7, based on roster. On offer is an exciting career where you'll make an impact and work with innovative technology solutions. You'll perfect your skills alongside a talented and collaborative team while enjoying the recognition, progression, and extensive benefits of a global organisation. Qualifications Managed Services experience preferred as primary responsibilities are operational and business as usual support focused. Ability to support cloud and on-premise workloads. Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform. Demonstrated experience in AWS services and clusters and ASGs: EC2, OpenSearch, S3, Lambda, SQS, CloudWatch, ECS/Fargate/Docker, Step Functions, IAM. Hands-on experience in writing APIs and Microservices using Python and writing Lambda functions. Operating at a level 3 capacity. Experience with version control tools like Git and GitHub. Experience and understanding of DevOps CI/CD pipelines using tools like AWS CodePipeline or Jenkins. Ability to troubleshoot issues related to the AWS ecosystem, clusters, networking, IAM, and VPC. Ability to write efficient, reusable, and testable code. Knowledge of OpenSearch for search and analytics is highly desirable. Effective communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ability to work in an Agile development environment and participate in sprint planning and review meetings. Ability to work in 24/7 roster-based environment for afterhours call support. Experience with Change management and release management processes. Relevant certifications, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional/DevOps. Experience in Terraform and Angular are desirable but not essential. Additional Information Why join us: NCS Australia is where you can feel at home, nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together, one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave, initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career, we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth. NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer, and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve. We are dedicated to attracting, retaining, and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community. At NCS Australia, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. Agencies: We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process, no fee or payment will be given. Work rights and background checks: To be eligible for a position with us, applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process, including probity and police checks. Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Information Technology IT Services and IT Consulting Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at NCS Group Australia by 2x. #J-18808-Ljbffr