Zeller is hiring an

AWS Cloud Engineer

Melbourne, Australia
Full-Time
About Zeller

At Zeller, we’re champions for businesses of all sizes, and proud to be a fast-growing Australian scale-up taking on the ambitious goal of reimagining business banking and payments.

We believe in a level playing field, where all businesses benefit from access to smarter payments and financial services solutions that accelerate their cash flow, help them get paid faster, and give them a better understanding of their finances. So we’re hard at work building the tools to make it happen.

Zeller is growing fast, backed by leading VCs, and brings together a global team of passionate payment and tech industry professionals. With an exciting roadmap of innovative new products under development, we are building a high performing team to take on the outdated banking solutions. If you are passionate about innovation, thrive in fast-paced environments, embrace a challenge, hate bureaucracy, and can’t think of anything more exciting than disrupting the status-quo, then read on to learn more. 

About the role
As a cloud Engineer you will be energetic and cool headed with experiences in maintaining AWS environments. You will be responsible for process automation, designing, developing and maintaining CICD pipelines, elastic, auto-scaling, compliant, secured and highly-available infrastructure.


With automation being at the heart of our engineering principles, this position will have the enviable opportunity to adopt and promote best practices, bleeding edge technologies and trends. Not limited to a single product area or type, this role will work in a cross functional team with skill sets in full stack software engineering, infrastructure, quality assurance to architecture. You will collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to support product development, operations support, compliance activities and SLA upkeep requirements.


You’ll be tasked with architecting and implementing compliant, efficient/performant, secure and auditable CICD and application infrastructures. Automation is key, you will be excited by your contributions to promoting Infrastructure-as-Code, selection of tools, standards and best practices.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Develop IAC using AWS Cloudformation,Terraform Cloud and Github Actions.
  • Configure and administer monitoring tools like Datadog,Grafana and Cloudwatch
  • Working on highly available and secured network design (VPC,Subnet, route tables, DMZ, NAT, IP whitelisting … etc)
  • Build pipeline for  Microservice and Serverless deployments (AWS Lambda,API Gateway)
  • Building AWS Serverless RDS Cluster.
  • Architect and design multi region cloud deployments.
  • Develop strategy to optimise the cloud and infrastructure costs. 
  • Build AWS ECS cluster and manage the docker containers.
  • Manage AWS Cloud services including CloudFormation, VPC, Subnets, EIP, EC2, VPC Peering, PrivateLink, Direct Connect, Security Group, ACL, VPN, Loading Balancing, Route53, CloudFront, ECS, ECR, Auto-Scaling, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, System Manager, Parameter Store, Certificate Manager, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudWatch logs, events, triggers, CloudTrail, X-Ray, Organisation, Single Sign-On, Lambda, API Gateway and AWS config & Guard Duty 

What we are looking for:

  • Python Automation: Proficient in automating infrastructure processes using Python
  • AWS Security Posture Management: In-depth understanding of maintaining and enhancing security within AWS environments
  • Cloud Optimization: Experience with cloud cost optimization and performance tuning
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong expertise in designing and deploying infrastructure using tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform Cloud, and GitHub Actions
  • Monitoring & Tools: Extensive experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog and Grafana to ensure system health and performance
  • Network Design: Knowledgeable in network design, including subnets, route tables, DMZs, NAT, and IP whitelisting.
  • Microservice & Serverless Architectures: Familiar with microservices and serverless technologies, particularly AWS Lambda and API Gateway
  • Database Management: Solid understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, including clustering and replication strategies.
  • Cloud Security: Strong understanding of cloud security models and best practices.
  • High-Load Systems Management: Proven track record in maintaining mission-critical, high-load production systems with an SLA of 99.999%

Bonus Points!

  • Experience in working within a high-growth environment
  • AWS Cloud professional certifications encouraged (AWS SA/Devops Specialist etc.) 
  • Experience in other cloud platforms (Azure, Google)
  • Experience in payments
  • Experience with PCI compliant environments (PCI-DSS, etc)

How we work
Our team thrives on the energy of being together. While technology connects us virtually, we love the in-person collaboration and spend majority of our work week at our spacious (and fully stocked with snacks) Melbourne CBD office.

Like the rest of the team, you’ll benefit from

A competitive salary package, including equity from an early stage;
A balanced, progressive, and supportive work environment;
Excellent parental leave and other leave entitlements;
A fantastic office environment;
Endless learning and development opportunities;
Plenty of fun and social opportunities - we love to come together as a team;
An ability to influence and shape the future of Zeller as our company scales both domestically and globally;
Being part of one of Australia’s most exciting scale-ups.

At Zeller, we are looking for passionate people with drive and integrity. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t exactly match this job description.
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