Senior Platform Engineer
Own the Kubernetes and Terraform platform behind a national government-facing service, working hybrid from Canberra.
$150,000 – $180,000 / year
About the role
We are looking for a senior platform engineer to take ownership of the container platform underpinning a national citizen-facing service. You will work alongside product teams to make deployment boring, observability default, and infrastructure reviewable as code.
Responsibilities
Operate and evolve the AWS EKS platform; own Terraform modules used by six product teams; lead incident response and post-incident review; mentor two mid-level engineers.
Requirements
Five or more years in platform or SRE roles; deep Kubernetes and Terraform experience; strong AWS (EKS, IAM, VPC); comfortable holding an NV1 clearance.
Benefits
Hybrid two days on site, professional development budget, salary packaging.
You will be asked
- Do you hold, or are you eligible to obtain, an NV1 security clearance?(required)
- How many years of production Kubernetes experience do you have?(required)
- Briefly describe a platform incident you led the response to.