This is a unique opportunity to join a forward-thinking, product-focused engineering team and play a key role in building and evolving the internal platform that enables development teams to deliver software faster, more securely, and at scale.
You’ll work on building scalable, reliable tooling and infrastructure abstractions that empower product teams and support the continuous growth of a globally adopted SaaS product.
About the Role
As a Platform Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing, maintaining, and improving the internal cloud platform and developer experience at scale. You’ll focus on automation, environment management, platform observability, and infrastructure performance – always with developer enablement and operational excellence in mind.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and evolve the internal developer platform and tooling to support product engineering teams across the SDLC.
- Build reusable automation, self-service capabilities, and guardrails to support consistent and secure platform usage.
- Maintain and scale cloud-based infrastructure (AWS) aligned to performance, security, and governance requirements.
- Support deployment tooling, CI/CD workflows, and internal IT systems for engineering productivity.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to scope, estimate, and implement new features aligned with the product roadmap.
- Lead incident response efforts and proactively enhance monitoring, alerting, and platform observability.
- Drive continuous improvement of infrastructure automation, cost optimisation, and reliability engineering practices.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship across DevOps practices and platform usage.
- Participate in on-call support and out-of-hours deployments when necessary to ensure minimal business disruption.
Skills & Experience
- 7+ years in software development, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
- Proven expertise in:
- Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Kops or EKS
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (multi-service proficiency)
- Scripting: Bash, Python, or similar
- CI/CD tooling and automation
- Demonstrated impact in improving:
- Infrastructure automation and reliability
- Developer enablement and platform self-service
- Cost efficiency and cloud optimisation
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in large-scale, complex environments.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills – able to work across teams and with senior stakeholders.
Apply now or contact Chris Pineda (08 8112 7412) or Jessica Gadsby (08 8112 7417) for a confidential discussion.
