Platform Engineer

Job Type: Permanent
Posted: over 1 year ago
Contact: Tamara McMurtrie
Discipline:
Reference: 249149

About the Company

We are currently recruiting for a Platform Engineer to Design, test, deploy, integrate, operate and administer a range of off-the-shelf, custom and IaaS/PaaS/SaaS ICT systems and platforms for a Federal Government Agency.


About the role

The successful candidate will be part of a team responsible for the design, implementation, administration and maintenance of the client's web, middleware, and application hosting technology stack. This stack includes application load balancing and firewalling (F5, AWS WAF), web app platforms (JBoss, IIS, Tomcat), and data management platforms (Pega, Informatica and Confirmit), and is involved in the use and operation of the client's continuous integration/deployment and devops tooling (Jenkins, Octopus Deploy and Git).


Responsibilities

  • utilise your knowledge of development processes and practices to take ownership of work
  • manage service requests and planning priorities
  • conduct technical research as required and understand technology directions and industry trends
  • solution design
  • liaise with clients and vendors to troubleshoot and resolve critical issues
  • staff management and mentoring


Skills and experience

  • Ability to Design, test, deploy, integrate, operate and administer a range of off-the-shelf, custom and IaaS/PaaS/SaaS ICT systems, platforms and solutions to best meet functional and non functional needs. Including, but not limited to:
    • Web, Middleware and Application Hosting Platform skills and experience:
      • Web application platforms (JBoss, IIS, Tomcat)
    • Public Cloud Platform and Services Administration:
      • Amazon Web Services (Firewall Manager, EC2, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Cloud9)
    • CI/CD and Infrastructure-As-Code Pipeline Methods:
      • Scripting and Automation Techniques (yaml, json) and associated tools (Visual Studio Code)
      • Version Control and Code Repositories (GIT)
    • Authentication (ADFS/SAML) and SSO models
    • Containerisation tools and technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS/ECR/EKS)



For more information or a confidential discussion, please contact Tamara on (03) 80807263 quoting reference 249149.

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