Senior Platform Engineer

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Position Summary:

Cognizant Australia is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join our growing team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled professional with a strong engineering background to solve complex cloud infrastructure challenges for our diverse client base. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure platform reliability, improve automation, and provide infrastructure solutions that support enterprise-grade services. This role is ideal for an individual with a firm foundation in infrastructure engineering, focusing on building scalable, secure, and observable platforms.

You will be working on exciting and interesting projects, providing Advisory and Consulting services covering a range of domains, including:

• Cloud infrastructure strategy and optimization
• Security architecture and risk management
• Cloud governance
• Platform engineering and SRE practices
• DevOps and CI/CD transformation
• Microservices and container orchestration
• IT Service Management integration

Mandatory Skills:

Delivering enterprise-grade architecture requires a vast amount of experience. We are seeking individuals with strong engineering backgrounds and practical knowledge, including but not limited to:

• Ability to provide detailed technical documentation, status updates, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to partner with development and operations teams to troubleshoot issues, optimise system performance, and implement best practices across the SDLC.
• Experience with application development.
• Proficient in developing internal applications, scripts, and automation solutions using Python, Bash, and other relevant methods.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining business-critical cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS, using Terraform, Terragrunt and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
• Experience managing and optimising Kubernetes clusters and leveraging associated tooling (Helm, Kustomize, etc.).
• Experience developing and maintaining efficient CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience implementing and managing event streaming platforms, associated tools and connectors (Confluent, MSK, and Apache Kafka).
• Experience with platform observability through Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, and custom monitoring/alerting solutions.
• Experience with SLA, SLO, and SLI service reliability framework.
• Experience designing and supporting SIEM solutions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead assessment activities across a range of organisations and verticals to provide insight on status and pathways to improvements.
• Lead security assessments of the environment and application architecture to identify and articulate the security risk profile.
• Deliver cloud assessment reviews to enable clients to understand their alignment with best practice, with recommendations on improvements.
• Lead workshops and discussions to determine a solution that delivers the client's expected outcomes.
• Lead infrastructure modernisation and cloud adoption initiatives across environments.
• Ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of platform components.
• Manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters across environments.
• Operate and scale distributed systems such as Confluent Kafka, ensuring data reliability and performance for real-time services.
• Work across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Deliver training workshops and labs to our staff and clients.
• Provide Pre-Sales Support and solution architecture for tendered offerings.
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for infrastructure, runbooks, architecture decisions, and SOPs.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and practices, evaluating their potential impact and adoption.

Qualifications & Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional
• CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• Certified SCRUM Master

Salary Range:>$100,000

Date of Posting: 08-Sep-25

Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you Please apply directly with us.

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