Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Role : Cloud Platform Engineer

Location : Sydney

Role : Contract

Essential for this role

Education and Qualifications - Degree in Computer Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering or Computer Science

Work Experience - 5 years industry experience building online applications

Technical / Professional Skills

1. Platform Engineering (Product Mindset) -Designs and operates internal platforms as products, focused on developer experience, onboarding speed, adoption, and measurable delivery outcomes rather than ticket-driven DevOps support.

2. Cloud & Infrastructure as Code (AWS-first)Strong experience building and operating multi-account AWS platforms using modular, versioned IaC (Terraform preferred), with secure defaults and automated enforcement.

3. Golden Paths & Standardized Delivery - Creates opinionated, reusable building blocks such as service templates, CI/CD pipeline primitives, Kubernetes baselines, and observability packages with clear upgrade and escape-hatch strategies.

4. Self-Service & GitOps Automation - Enables teams through APIs, CLIs, and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD), reducing manual approvals and support load while maintaining guardrails.

5. Containers & Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Platforms - Deep understanding of containerized workloads, Helm-based deployments, and platform-level Kubernetes controls for isolation, quotas, and scalability across many teams.

6. Secure-by-Default Architecture - Embeds security via policy-as-code, least-privilege IAM, secrets management, and software supply chain controls so compliant paths are the easiest paths.

7. Reliability, Observability & Operations -Treats reliability as a platform feature, implementing SLOs, error budgets, standardized logging/metrics/tracing, safe rollouts, and incident learning loops.

8. Automation, Communication & Enablement - Builds productized automation using Python/Shell, writes clear documentation, and influences teams through paved roads, examples, and education—not tribal knowledge.

Technical Skills- Good to have

1. Linux system engineering with automation-first, immutable infrastructure, and container-host optimization
2. Terraform (advanced modules, testing, versioning)
3. Docker & Kubernetes (Helm, GitOps patterns)
4. CI/CD as reusable platform primitives (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
5. GitOps delivery (ArgoCD)
6. AWS multi-account architecture
7. IAM least privilege, shared services, networking baselines
8. IAM least privilege, shared services, networking baselines
9. Python & Bash for platform tooling
10. APIs / CLIs over ad-hoc scripts
11. Observability & Reliability
12. SalesForce
13. Google Cloud Platform

Non-Technical / Soft Skills

1. Flexible: preparedness to change ideas and behaviors when faced with conflicting or new information
2. Possess the ability to exercise independent and effective judgment
3. A desire to do things well and to exceed previous standards
4. Open Communication: Preparedness to express and share knowledge and views on a continual basis
5. Exhibit and require the highest ethical standards and integrity
6. Work well under pressure and to tight deadlines
7. Display a disciplined but flexible approach to problem solving

Additional Skills

1. Able to pro-actively identify challenges and recommend solutions.
2. Creative/ Lateral thinker
3. Show an ability to win the trust and respect of individuals and the group