AWS Platform Engineer

AWS Platform Engineer

About usBGL delivers software solutions to over 12,700 businesses in 15 countries through its user-friendly and highly intelligent web applications, combining amazing UX with powerful technology

We’re a global team of professionals based in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom. With a strong reputation for excellence, we deliver high-quality Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to the accounting industry, specialising in self-managed superannuation funds and corporate compliance.
We’re proud to celebrate achievements that reflect our culture and our people, including:

• Great Place to Work certification
• AFR Best Places to Work (Technology, Top 10)
• Mental Health First Aid Workplace Recognition
• Australia’s Best Workplaces™ for Women list
• AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies – ranked four times in six years

Culture & BenefitsWe take pride in continuously building and improving our culture, and we welcome people who share our values. We regularly seek feedback through engagement surveys, 1:1s, focus groups, and even casual coffee catch-ups. Our average employee tenure of 6+ years is a testament to the supportive and rewarding environment we’ve created—and we’ve got plenty of exciting things planned for the future!

Benefits you’ll enjoy include:

• Extra time off with additional annual leave, RDOs, and the option to purchase extra leave
• Hybrid working arrangements for all employees
• Learning and development opportunities, including annual development budgets, tailored development plans, paid study leave, and stretch opportunities
• Regular social activities, from monthly team lunches to annual company-wide events
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing programs, including EAP, flu shots, and run club
• Paid volunteering leave to give back to the community

**About the role:**This is a hands-on DevOps role for a platform engineer who loves making cloud environments faster, safer and more reliable. You'll own and improve our AWS platform, automate how we build and ship, and work shoulder to shoulder with developers to help them prototype, debug and deploy with confidence. If you get a kick out of solving tough infrastructure problems, stripping friction out of the pipeline and seeing your improvements go live in short sprint cycles, this is the role for you.
(This role is know internally as DevOps Engineer.)

What you’ll be doing:

• Keep our AWS infrastructure healthy, PaaS orchestration, build agents, and monitoring tools and dashboards across a mix of EC2 and Kubernetes-based containers
• Design, build and automate internal processes, making heavy use of AWS, Terraform and a range of automation tooling
• Build, maintain and troubleshoot our CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines, from Jenkins through to GitOps tools such as ArgoCD for Kubernetes
• Partner with developers to identify, debug and resolve build, deployment and production issues
• Help developers design reliable, stable environments for new services
• Guide code through the software development lifecycle, particularly its promotion and deployment across environments
• Mentor and coach team members and support leadership with day-to-day technical direction
• Strengthen our observability so we can detect and respond to incidents faster

What we’re looking for:

• 3+ years’ experience in a Platform Engineer role, including commercial experience supporting Linux systems in a large-scale environment
• A solid understanding of DevOps methodologies and ways of working
• Commercial experience supporting applications running on AWS cloud services
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and its surrounding ecosystem
• Strong scripting and automation skills to build and streamline deployments
• Substantial hands-on experience with git and with Docker containers
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI or GitHub Actions) and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• AWS certification at Associate level or higher
• Demonstrated experience with agile ways of working, such as Scrum
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work closely with developers and engineers

Nice to have:

• Good understanding of Java, Python, Node.js or other software development languages
• Experience with observability and application monitoring/profiling, using both open source and  commercial monitoring tools
• Experience with Agile, ITIL, security, audit, compliance
• Experience with SQL and/or DBMS optimisation
• Versed with cloud technologies and offerings (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)

Please note we are only able to consider applicants with full working rights for Australia.

• We review applications on an ongoing basis so encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
• The next stage of our recruitment process will require you to complete a one way video interview.