Cloud Platform Engineer

IAG; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

13% Superannuation

Annual leave 20 days + 5 MyLeave

Flexible work options (myFlex)

Insurance discounts

Parental leave 20 weeks

Learning opportunities

Job summary

IAG is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to advance our enterprise cloud foundations across GCP and AWS. You will build self-service capabilities and drive automation, governance, and observability across the platform.

You will work with strategic vendors, uplift engineering communities, and contribute to a unified Enterprise Cloud Platform strategy from Sydney, Melbourne, or Auckland. This is a permanent full‑time role.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years with GCP/AWS cloud infra.
• Strong Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD experience.
• Exposure to Cloud Run, OpenTelemetry is a plus.
• Vendor engagement with cross‑functional teams.
• Understanding microservices and modern software practices.

Responsibilities

• Build self‑service platform capabilities (GKE, Cloud Run, EKS) with Terraform, GitOps, day 2 ops.
• Triage and resolve BAU platform requests and incidents.
• Enhance GCP foundations including networking and security controls.
• Maintain golden-path Terraform modules with deploy‑time standards.
• Develop and enhance IDP with templates and golden paths.
• Create policy as code and platform guardrails.
• Design observability and tooling; support on‑call patterns.
• Collaborate with vendors to uplift engineering community.

Skills

GCP

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

Networking

Observability

Tools

ArgoCD

Wiz

New Relic

Splunk

Job description

At IAG, we’re ready for you. We're the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand. Our family of brands turns the IAG purpose of making your world a safer place into action by helping everyday Aussies and New Zealanders, supporting their ambitions and making insurance accessible.

Join us as a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer and help build the future of IAG’s engineering platform.

We run IAG's multi-cloud estate across AWS, GCP and Azure, supporting insurance operations in Australia and New Zealand under APRA and RBNZ obligations. We are building this out into a self-service platform with golden paths and guardrails. Foundations are in place; the platform layer is what we are hiring for.

A key focus of this role is evolving our GCP estate as we migrate workloads from an end-of-life on-premises container platform to Cloud Run. You'll help build and enhance the cloud foundations these workloads rely on, including networking, identity, security, observability and reusable platform patterns, while contributing to a unified Enterprise Cloud Platform across GCP and AWS. In this role, you’ll work hands on with our strategic vendors, uplift IAG’s engineering community and shape the experience layer that brings the platform to life. This is a permanent full-time role based in multiple locations in Auckland, Melbourne or Sydney.

What You'll Do

• Build self-service platform capabilities (GKE, Cloud Run, EKS) using Terraform, GitOps, and day 2 operational automation.
• Contribute to BAU platform operations, including triaging and resolving support requests from engineering teams, incident response, and continuous improvement work alongside greenfield delivery.
• Enhance GCP foundations, including networking, hybrid connectivity, workload identity, secrets management and observability.
• Develop and maintain golden-path Terraform modules, with standards enforced at deploy time.
• Develop and enhance IAG’s IDP, including service catalogues, templates, and golden paths that lift engineering productivity and experience.
• Create platform guardrails & policy as code that enable fast delivery while maintaining reliability, security, and compliance.
• Design observability and operational tooling, improving platform reliability and enabling strong on call support patterns. OpenTelemetry exposure is highly valued.
• Support workload migration to Cloud Run and uplift cloud security through Wiz and CNAPP capabilities.
• Work closely with strategic vendors (Google, Wiz, AWS and others), embedding into delivery teams and sharing knowledge back into IAG via pairing, learning hours, and lightweight communities of practice.
• Influence platform direction, challenging approaches with data driven insights and supporting solution governance as part of IAG’s engineering ways of working.
• Participate in a rotating on-call roster, responding to platform incidents out of hours and contributing to PIRs to drive reliability improvements

What You'll Bring

• 3–5+ years’ experience building cloud infrastructure with GCP and/or AWS, and strong platform‑product thinking.
• Experience building cloud foundations, including networking, identity, observability and security controls.
• Experience in Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform), Kubernetes, containers, GitOps and CI/CD (GitHub Actions).
• Exposure to Cloud Run, OpenTelemetry and modern platform engineering practices is highly desirable.
• Ability to work confidently with vendors and cross‑functional teams, engaging internal customers and communicating clearly.
• Understanding of modern software engineering practices and microservices architectures, and how developers build and ship services.
• You pair solid engineering judgement with action — moving work forward, communicating clearly, and avoiding analysis paralysis.
• You help others grow — sharing knowledge, pairing, and building a strong learning culture as we transition from vendor‑led to in‑house capability.
• Nice to have: Backstage, TypeScript, Crossplane, ArgoCD, Wiz, and observability tools (e.g., New Relic, Splunk); FinOps experience is a plus.

What We Offer

• Boosted superannuation with 13% as standard.
• 20 days annual leave + 5 days MyLeave (extra leave for what’s important to you).
• Work from home and many more flexibility options with myFlex.
• Up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance.
• Partner discounts on private health insurance, tech & appliances, and many more.
• Industry-leading 20 weeks paid parental leave.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning, the award-winning IAG Academy, study assistance and secondment opportunities.

Applications close: Sunday 4 October 2026 11:59PM AEST

Please note – full time, part time, and job‑sharing arrangements will be considered.

Adjustments & Support

If you require any support or adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to [e-mail] for a confidential conversation.

More About Us

As part of IAG you'll enjoy a world of career opportunities, a purpose‑led place focused on creating connection and belonging, and where you can create meaningful impact every day and grow your career beyond the expected. That’s not just words. It’s our people promise. We're ready for you with unexpected opportunities for your career, your work‑life and your ability to make a difference. We celebrate all viewpoints shaped by life experiences and culture, and are guided by the knowledge and voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, businesses, and communities. We collaborate on Indigenous‑led solutions that enable growth and create meaningful change for our customers and employees.