Cloud Platform Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes & GitOps

ITbility; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ITbility in Sydney is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer on a contract for 6+ months. The role focuses on designing and operating internal platforms treated as products, with emphasis on developer experience, onboarding speed, adoption, and measurable delivery outcomes rather than ticket-driven support.

You will build and operate multi-account AWS platforms using modular IaC (Terraform preferred), enforce secure defaults, and deliver reusable blocks such as templates, CI/CD primitives, Kubernetes

Qualifications

• Designs and operates internal platforms as products with focus on developer experience, onboarding speed, adoption, and measurable delivery outcomes.
• Strong experience building and operating multi-account AWS platforms using modular, versioned IaC with secure defaults and automated enforcement.
• Creates opinionated, reusable blocks such as service templates, CI/CD pipeline primitives, Kubernetes baselines, and observability packages with clear upgrade and escape-hatch strategies.
• Enables teams through APIs, CLIs, and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD), reducing manual approvals and support load while maintaining guardrails.
• Deep understanding of containerized workloads, Helm-based deployments, and platform-level Kubernetes controls for isolation, quotas, and scalability.
• Embeds security via policy-as-code, least-privilege IAM, secrets management, and software supply chain controls so compliant paths are the easiest paths.
• Treats reliability as a platform feature, implementing SLOs, error budgets, standardized logging/metrics/tracing, safe rollouts, and incident learning loops.
• Builds productized automation using Python/Shell, writes clear documentation, and educates teams with paved roads and examples.

Responsibilities

• Designs and operates internal platforms as products, focused on developer experience, onboarding speed, adoption, and measurable delivery outcomes.
• Builds and operates multi-account AWS platforms using modular IaC with secure defaults and automated enforcement.
• Creates reusable blocks such as service templates, CI/CD primitives, Kubernetes baselines, and observability packages.
• Enables teams through APIs, CLIs, and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD) with guardrails.
• Implements containerized workloads, Helm-based deployments, and platform-level Kubernetes controls for isolation and scalability.
• Embeds security with policy-as-code and least-privilege IAM.
• Implements SLOs, logging, metrics, tracing, and safe rollouts for reliability.
• Produces clear documentation and training to uplift teams' self-sufficiency.

Skills

Platform Engineering

AWS-first

Golden Paths

GitOps Automation

Kubernetes Platform

Security-by-default

Reliability & Observability

Automation & Enablement

Job description

ITbility in Sydney is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer on a contract for 6+ months. The role focuses on designing and operating internal platforms treated as products, with emphasis on developer experience, onboarding speed, adoption, and measurable delivery outcomes rather than ticket-driven support.

You will build and operate multi-account AWS platforms using modular IaC (Terraform preferred), enforce secure defaults, and deliver reusable blocks such as templates, CI/CD primitives, Kubernetes