Cloud Platform · AWS · Delivery Reality
Tony Zaarour — practical platform leadership.
Cloud Platform Architect / Senior Platform Engineer with hands-on experience designing, governing, and modernising AWS platforms in regulated and enterprise environments.
Best fit: messy estates that need clearer guardrails, stronger operating boundaries, better automation, and less platform theatre.
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5+
Years AWS
Platform architecture & delivery
20→0
Dropouts Fixed
Australian Museum critical site
$$$
Cost Impact
Annual savings via optimisation
ECS
Modernised
Legacy → event-driven patterns
Core strengths
Where I tend to add value fastest.
- AWS platform architecture and multi-account governance
- Compliance, audit readiness, and security controls
- Infrastructure as code and platform automation
- Event-driven workload modernisation
- CI/CD, observability, and operational tooling
- Cost optimisation and utilisation management
- Documentation, enablement, and operational handover
- Practical architecture grounded in delivery reality
Recent roles
Squiz
Senior DevOps Engineer
May 2024 – Present
- Owned the internal AWS platform across a complex multi-account environment supporting shared operational workloads.
- Acted as the de facto platform architect for major initiatives across governance, compliance, workload modernisation, and cloud operations.
- Built reporting, alerting, and guardrail capabilities to improve audit readiness and compliance execution.
- Improved platform governance through control redesign and organisation-wide guardrails.
- Modernised long-running workloads into event-driven ECS task patterns, reducing reliance on oversized always-on compute.
- Managed commitment optimisation and cloud efficiency work that delivered material annual savings.
- Led the AWS side of migration from data centre to AWS, including documentation and team enablement.
Versent
DevOps Engineer
Mar 2021 – Apr 2024
- Delivered cloud infrastructure, automation, and operational improvements for enterprise client environments.
- Built reusable deployment tooling, reporting modules, alarm automation, and private API monitoring capabilities.
- Designed and implemented a serverless anti-virus solution using Trend Cloud One.
- Led migration from legacy email infrastructure to AWS SES with stronger security and operational controls.
- Built CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and ECS runners with OIDC-based short-lived AWS access.
AXE Group
Junior DevSecOps Engineer
Jan 2020 – Feb 2021
- Automated deployments, Linux configuration, and security-related operational tasks.
- Maintained Ansible playbooks and environment management workflows.
- Built Shell, Bash, and PowerShell tooling for deployment and operational support.
OpenMRS
Junior DevOps Engineer
Apr 2019 – Feb 2020
- Supported infrastructure and platform operations for the OpenMRS open-source community.
Tools and platforms
Cloud
AWS
Organizations
Control Tower
IAM Identity Center
SSO
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
AWS CDK
CloudFormation
Containers & Compute
ECS
Fargate
Lambda
Step Functions
EC2
SSM
Docker
CI/CD & Automation
GitLab CI
GitHub Actions
AWS CodePipeline
Python
Bash
JavaScript
TypeScript
Security & Observability
Security Hub
AWS Config
GuardDuty
Inspector
CloudWatch
Dynatrace
Sumo Logic
Cloudflare
AWS WAF
Vanta
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