AI Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & Self-Service Platform

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

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.