AI Platform Engineer

UniSuper; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Superannuation 17%

Development funding 1,500

Parental leave 20 weeks

Extra paid leave days 3

Job summary

UniSuper is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, deliver and improve an Internal Developer Platform and Kubernetes capabilities across Azure environments. You will collaborate with engineering teams to enable fast, secure deployment and self-service workflows.

You will drive infrastructure-as-code practices, observability, and CI/CD automation while contributing to reliability and developer experience across our platform.

Qualifications

• Strong platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering or software engineering background.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience, preferably Azure Kubernetes Service
• Experience with internal developer platforms, golden paths, self-service provisioning or reusable platform modules
• Strong infrastructure-as-code capability using Terraform or equivalent tooling
• Working knowledge of continuous integration and delivery, GitOps, cloud-native deployment and Azure
• Experience with observability, secure integration design and production-grade code and automation

Responsibilities

• Deliver self-service capabilities, golden-path templates, environment provisioning and developer onboarding workflows
• Improve reusable platform patterns and support application teams to onboard workloads
• Deliver Kubernetes platform services across Azure Kubernetes Service and related cloud environments
• Support infrastructure automation, platform reliability, upgrades, resilience testing and operational readiness
• Contribute to pipeline templates, deployment workflows, security gates and continuous delivery standards
• Analyse operational data, incident trends, developer feedback and adoption measures to improve reliability and developer experience

Skills

DevOps

Kubernetes

Azure Kubernetes Service

Terraform

CI/CD

GitOps

Platform engineering

Observability

Job description

About Us

UniSuper is a workplace where highly skilled professionals are empowered to Think Great and deliver exceptional retirement outcomes for our members. With a culture grounded in accountability, collaboration and care, your work contributes directly to members' long term financial security.
The Technology & Delivery team is accountable for being excellent with technology and being excellent at delivering change, partnering with business units to enable faster, safer member outcomes through resilient, modern, AI-enabled technology built for scale and speed.
Deliver a platform experience that supports safer, more consistent services and improves how teams work.

The role

You will deliver and improve UniSuper's Internal Developer Platform, Kubernetes capabilities and reusable engineering patterns. You will support application and delivery teams to build, deploy and operate services safely and consistently, while improving self-service and reducing manual platform support.

• Deliver self-service capabilities, golden-path templates, environment provisioning and developer onboarding workflows
• Improve reusable platform patterns and support application teams to onboard workloads
• Deliver Kubernetes platform services across Azure Kubernetes Service and related cloud environments
• Support infrastructure automation, platform reliability, upgrades, resilience testing and operational readiness
• Contribute to pipeline templates, deployment workflows, security gates and continuous delivery standards
• Analyse operational data, incident trends, developer feedback and adoption measures to improve reliability and developer experience

About you

Your technical expertise will support secure, reliable and automated platform solutions in a regulated environment. You solve complex engineering problems, contribute confidently across teams and improve outcomes through clear documentation and practical collaboration.

• Strong platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering or software engineering background
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience, preferably Azure Kubernetes Service
• Experience with internal developer platforms, golden paths, self-service provisioning or reusable platform modules
• Strong infrastructure-as-code capability using Terraform or equivalent tooling
• Working knowledge of continuous integration and delivery, GitOps, cloud-native deployment and Azure
• Experience with observability, secure integration design and production-grade code and automation

What We Offer

UniSuper believes that the best way to achieve great things is when we come together and collaborate. Therefore, we ask you to be able to commit 60% of your time in office. UniSuper is proud of our culture and benefits, which empower our people to achieve their full potential, thrive, and grow their career with us. These include:

• 17% superannuation contribution
• $1,500 development funding
• 20 weeks paid parental leave
• 3 extra paid leave days

It should go without saying, but at UniSuper, we value and celebrate diversity and inclusion. We believe that a variety of perspectives, backgrounds, interests, abilities, and skills is crucial for delivering great retirement outcomes for our members.