Senior Platform Engineer
Perth, Western Australia, Australia · Full Time
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- 4 weeks ago
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Job description
About the Role
Join Insignia Financial as a Senior Platform Engineer based in Perth, Western Australia, playing a pivotal role in developing and enhancing the platforms underpinning our enterprise technology landscape. Situated within the Infrastructure, Cloud & Workplace division, you will spearhead the design, automation, and ongoing refinement of cloud-native platforms, developer tools, and containerized services. This role demands hands-on engineering to build secure, scalable, and resilient solutions that sustain vital business and client service functions. If you enjoy tackling complex technical problems and empowering high-performing teams, this position offers a significant opportunity to contribute.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native platform services alongside container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
- Lead strategic platform projects including cloud migrations, Kubernetes platform enhancements, Infrastructure-as-Code implementation, and self-service developer platform creation.
- Enhance platform reliability through observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, automation, and continuous service optimization.
- Implement secure-by-design principles ensuring platform services comply with security, governance, resilience, and compliance standards.
- Offer technical leadership by mentoring engineers and promoting best practices in cloud, automation, and platform engineering.
- Collaborate closely with Architecture, Cyber Security, and delivery teams to deliver scalable, dependable, and governed technology outcomes.
Essential Qualifications and Experience
- At least 7 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering within large enterprise settings.
- Proficiency in working hands-on with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps methodologies, and contemporary CI/CD tools.
- Experienced in executing platform modernization programs such as cloud transformations, container platform adoptions, and infrastructure automation.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring solutions including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Elastic, or equivalent technologies.
- Strong capabilities in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
- Expertise with configuration management technologies like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or related tools at scale.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills enabling influence over technical decisions, mentoring of peers, and translation of technical concepts into business value.
Additional Information
This role aims to leverage deep technical knowledge combined with creativity to navigate complex challenges. You will be part of a team committed to innovation and applying technology in ways that prioritize human impact.
Applicants must provide proof of work eligibility in Australia and will be subject to police and basic credit checks as employment conditions.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted currently.
We value the diversity individuals bring and encourage applicants to request support or accommodations during the hiring process if needed.
Level
Senior