The Opportunity
Join a leading Australian organisation at the forefront of cloud transformation and AI-enabled automation. This is your chance to play a pivotal role in one of the country’s most mature AWS-native technology environments. You’ll contribute to high-impact infrastructure initiatives, working across security, compliance, and innovation. If you’re passionate about automation, cloud-native tools, and resilient, scalable platforms—this opportunity is for you.
Melbourne or Sydney CBD opportunity. Must be able to attend the office 2-3 days per week. Unfortunately sponsorship is not offered for this role.
The Role
As a
Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and governing cloud-native infrastructure solutions.
Your other responsibilities will include:
- Engineering secure, scalable platform services using AWS-native tooling such as CDK, Lambda, ECS/EKS, and Control Tower.
- Driving DevSecOps automation across CI/CD pipelines, embedding compliance and resilience at every stage.
- Implementing automated governance controls and configuration baselines for in-house and third-party platforms.
- Leading integration of AI workflow testing frameworks, ensuring safe deployment of intelligent systems.
- Defining infrastructure as code using Terraform/CDK and managing deployments through GitOps workflows.
- Collaborating with stakeholders across Security, Risk, and Compliance to align infrastructure with regulatory standards.
About You
In order to be a successful applicant, you will have over 10 years’ experience in platform engineering, DevOps or SRE, with deep expertise in cloud-native environments.
You will also have:
- Proven hands-on experience with AWS services including CDK, Lambda, EKS, IAM, and Control Tower.
- Strong background in IaC using Terraform and CloudFormation, along with CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodePipeline).
- Proficiency in container orchestration (Kubernetes), scripting (Python, Bash, or Go), and Linux system engineering.
- A solid understanding of monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Splunk.
- Demonstrated ability to build platform controls aligned to financial services compliance standards (e.g., APRA CPS 234).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a continuous improvement mindset.
Benefits
- Contribute to a high-impact cloud and AI transformation program
- Work in a hybrid, flexible Melbourne-based environment
- Access to modern DevSecOps toolchains and AWS-native solutions
- Join a collaborative engineering culture with a strong governance focus
Please apply with current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). We are experiencing a large number of applications currently, please apply directly to the job advert, emails may be missed or not receive a reply. Helena.patterson@davidsonwp.com, JN -072025-40907. Want to know more about Davidson? Visit us at www.davidsonwp.com
