Senior Platform Engineer

About the role

Join the team building Verdi, Macquarie’s next‑generation cloud platform that enables engineering teams to create, deploy and operate cloud services. You will design, develop and evolve core capabilities, embedding security, governance and operational controls into the developer experience.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement software, automation and cloud services that improve engineer productivity.
• Embed security, governance and operational controls into the platform and developer tooling.
• Mentor and coach engineers, providing technical guidance and influencing architectural direction.

Required profile

• Proven experience as a senior software, platform or cloud engineer delivering complex solutions in production.
• Strong collaboration and mentoring skills, able to communicate with technical and senior stakeholders.

Required skills

• Go or Python for building reliable services and automation.
• Deep knowledge of AWS services (Organizations, EC2, EKS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3) and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Experience with cloud‑native technologies, modern software engineering practices and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with AI‑powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot.

What we offer

• Wellbeing leave, additional service bonus leave, and generous parental leave options.
• Paid volunteer leave, donation matching, gender affirmation leave, and health benefits.
• Employee Assistance Program, salary packaging, learning and development reimbursements.
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, plus work‑from‑home equipment reimbursement.