Cloud Platform Architect / Senior DevOps Engineer
I’m Tony Zaarour. I work across AWS platform architecture, governance, compliance, automation, and workload modernisation.
My work usually sits where platform engineering, cloud operations, and architecture overlap: shaping guardrails, improving operating models, reducing delivery friction, and making cloud environments easier to trust and run.
I’m strongest in environments that need practical platform leadership rather than theory-only architecture. That usually means a mix of governance, reliability, cost control, migration, and hands-on delivery.
What I work on
- Multi-account AWS platforms
- Platform governance and guardrails
- Compliance and audit-readiness support
- Workload modernisation and migration
- Event-driven and container-based operating models
- CI/CD, platform tooling, and delivery enablement
- Cost optimisation and operational efficiency
- Documentation, handover, and cross-team enablement
Selected proof points
- Owned and improved AWS platforms across complex multi-account environments
- Improved governance and compliance execution through guardrails, reporting, and control redesign
- Built reporting and alerting workflows to support audit readiness and remediation
- Modernised legacy workloads into more scalable event-driven patterns
- Delivered measurable cost reduction through commitment optimisation and platform automation
- Reduced critical website dropouts for Australian Museum through performance tuning and architecture changes
- Led migration and enablement work spanning architecture, operations, and handover
I’m particularly interested in work where cloud is treated as an operating model, not just a hosting destination.
For a more formal summary of experience, see the resume page or connect on LinkedIn .