DevOps Cloud Engineer

At Gallagher Bassett, we help clients navigate complexity, support recovery, and deliver outcomes that make a real difference.

As a new DevOps Cloud Engineer aboard the Infrastructure team, you will play a pivotal role in supporting and evolving our cloud platforms as we transition from project delivery into stable, business‑as‑usual operations.

About the Role

This role is critical to ensuring the stability, security, and scalability of our AWS environments, supporting regulated workloads and key client obligations while reducing reliance on external contractors.

You will advance DevOps practices, strengthen operational resilience, and enable continuous delivery across a growing cloud estate.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to support secure, reliable deployments.
• Monitoring and maintaining platform performance, availability, and security.
• Automating operational processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Supporting incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement.
• Collaborating with architecture, security, and application teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Ensuring compliance with security and regulatory requirements for government and enterprise workloads.
• Contributing to capacity planning, cost optimisation, and cloud governance.

About You

What Are We Looking For?

• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS services (especially Fargate, EC2, ALB, VPC, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch, and Lambda).
• Proven experience working in a git‑driven DevOps environment with automation and continuous delivery practices.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, particularly Bitbucket Pipelines and Jenkins.
• Experience with containerisation (Fargate/Docker).
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Windows systems administration.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving capability and practical experience with debugging and optimising code, as well as automation.
• Australian Citizenship.

Desirable Experience Will Include

• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies using CloudWatch and Splunk.
• Experience supporting regulated environments (e.g., government, insurance, financial services).
• Exposure to multi‑region or hybrid cloud environments (AWS and Azure).
• Knowledge of networking, identity, and security architectures in cloud.

Why Gallagher Bassett

We are committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace culture, offering attractive remuneration and flexible work arrangements.

• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Hybrid / work‑from‑home options.
• Paid parental leave, reproductive leave, birthday leave, and purchased lifestyle leave packages.
• Peer support program, corporate health insurance discounts, and wellness programs.
• Additional purchased leave, volunteer leave days, retail discounts, and more.

Security Clearance

Being an Australian citizen and vetted to the Baseline Security Clearance level is a mandatory requirement for the position.

Compensation And Benefits

• 4 weeks annual leave plus up to 2 weeks additional purchased Lifestyle Leave.
• Novated Leasing opportunities.
• Two paid volunteer days annually.
• Health Insurance Discounts with our Group Insurance Plan.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• Paid parental leave.

Other Benefits Include

• Flexible and hybrid work arrangements.
• Mental Health and Wellbeing Support for yourself and immediate family members.
• Employee Recognition Awards and Service Milestone Recognitions.
• Peer Support Program.
• Annual flu vaccinations.
• Access to Reward Gateway – discount offers at over 350 retailers!
• And more…

We Value Inclusion and Diversity

Gallagher Bassett is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Indigenous Australian applicants are encouraged to apply. As a member of the Diversity Council Australia, we recognise the importance of, and embrace diversity in the workplace. We will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non‑conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer‑employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.