Platform Engineer

19 hours ago

Greater Brisbane Area, Australia Exclaim IT Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

About the role

The Platform Engineer provides high-level technical support for a cloud-hosted Microservice and Event Driven Platform. The position focuses on maintaining scalability, automation, and performance across REST APIs and microservices. The role involves building secure, reliable, and efficient platform components that support continuous improvement and service delivery.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain in-depth technical knowledge of systems and services.
  • Contribute to technical standards, procedures, and support documentation.
  • Build and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure platform components.
  • Automate workflows to improve operational efficiency and consistency.
  • Prioritise and resolve technical issues within expected timeframes.
  • Provide guidance and hands-on support to promote Cloud best practices.
  • Collaborate with quality assurance teams to ensure appropriate testing coverage.
  • Identify and escalate risks, issues, and improvement opportunities.
  • Manage and document complex changes in line with ITIL standards.
  • Maintain governance, compliance, and security across all platform components.
  • Keep support documentation, diagrams, and training materials current.
  • Manage lifecycle patching for tools such as EKS, Trivy, Fluentbit, Kube-bench, Metric Server, and Nginx Ingress.
  • Perform other relevant duties as directed.

Highly desirable criteria

  • AWS Associate or Professional level certification.
  • Experience across both public and private sector environments.

Desirable criteria

  • Experience with lifecycle patching for microservice environments.
  • Knowledge of Cloud environment security best practices.
  • Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills.

Skills and experience

  • Proficiency in at least one of the following: Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, or AWS.
  • Experience supporting and maintaining Cloud-based microservice platforms.
  • Strong understanding of automation and DevOps principles.
  • Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team setting.
  • Experience applying ITIL standards in change and incident management.

Benefits

  • Contribute to modern Cloud and microservice platform initiatives.
  • Gain exposure to advanced DevOps and automation technologies.
  • Hybrid working model with a collaborative technical team.
  • Potential for contract extension based on performance.

Contact Details

For a confidential chat, please contact Anissa on or via email at - and we would be more than happy to provide you with additional information and assist in the application process.

Please note that a National Police Check might be required as part of pre-employment screening.

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