Hybrid Role: AI-Driven Platform Engineer for Azure CI/CD

Neilson; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Subsidised lunch

Hybrid work

Central Sydney office

Job summary

Neilson Financial Services is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer to own the day-to-day CI/CD pipelines for the Dataworks team. You’ll work on AI agentic tooling, deploy to Azure, and build secure, auditable pipelines with Terraform/Bicep.

Three days in Sydney office, two from home, with subsidised lunch. You will bring 4+ years in platform engineering or DevOps, deep experience across GitLab, GitHub, and Azure DevOps, and strong Azure networking/Entra ID knowledge.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or build/release engineering.
• Genuine hands-on depth across more than one of GitLab, GitHub, and Azure DevOps.
• Production Azure experience, including networking, Entra ID, and compute.
• Terraform or Bicep, plus scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Practical experience using AI coding agents or building agentic workflows in real delivery work.
• A solid grasp of the SDLC, including branching, environment promotion, and change control.
• Full work rights in Australia - no sponsorship provided.
• Nice to have: data pipeline experience, financial services or other regulated industry background, Kubernetes and Helm, Azure certifications.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines across GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps Pipelines.
• Work directly with Dataworks engineers to turn delivery needs into reliable, repeatable pipelines.
• Deploy to Azure with Terraform or Bicep, including AKS where applicable.
• Build security scanning, auditability, and change control into every pipeline.
• Use AI coding tools and agentic workflows to speed up development and migration work, and feed back to improve them.
• Document everything so the Dataworks team can own it when your term ends.

Skills

CI/CD

Platform engineering

DevOps

GitLab

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Bicep

Python

PowerShell

Bash

AI coding tools

Agentic workflows

Security scanning

Azure

AKS

Entra ID

Networking

SDLC

Kubernetes

Helm

Azure certs

Tools

GitLab

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Job description

Neilson Financial Services is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer to own the day-to-day CI/CD pipelines for the Dataworks team. You’ll work on AI agentic tooling, deploy to Azure, and build secure, auditable pipelines with Terraform/Bicep.

Three days in Sydney office, two from home, with subsidised lunch. You will bring 4+ years in platform engineering or DevOps, deep experience across GitLab, GitHub, and Azure DevOps, and strong Azure networking/Entra ID knowledge.