Platform Engineer

About the role

A permanent Platform Engineer position in Sydney, focused on designing and running CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and self-service automation for development teams. The role also involves on-call support for production systems.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery.
• Collaborate with development teams so new features integrate smoothly.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues to keep systems highly available.
• Implement infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Ensure security best practices in every deployment and document processes and configurations for team knowledge sharing.
• Take part in on-call rotations supporting production systems.
• Create reusable building blocks such as service templates, CI/CD pipeline primitives, Kubernetes baselines and observability packages.
• Enable teams via APIs, CLIs and GitOps workflows (e.g. ArgoCD).
• Support multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms with Helm-based deployments, isolation, quotas and scalability.

Required profile

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI or CircleCI.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of cloud services (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or the ELK stack.