Platform Engineer

T+O+M Executive; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

T+O+M Executive is seeking a Platform Engineer to own the platforms, tools, and automation underpinning the engineering ecosystem. You will automate infrastructure, streamline deployments, improve observability, and build reliable release processes to empower development teams to deliver software quickly, safely, and consistently.

You will design and maintain automation for GCP and Kubernetes, build secure CI/CD pipelines, and lead incident response with robust monitoring.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience managing cloud infra on GCP.
• Expertise with Kubernetes (GKE) orchestration.
• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong observability, logging, and monitoring practices.
• Experience with APIs, service meshes, and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automation for GCP and Kubernetes environments end-to-end.
• Develop secure, automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging.
• Drive migrations to containerized platforms with minimal risk.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams.
• Operate in AI-assisted engineering tools.

Skills

GCP expertise

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Automation scripting

Observability tooling

Tools

GKE

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

As a Platform Engineer, you will own the platforms, tools, and automation that underpin the engineering ecosystem. You'll automate infrastructure, streamline deployments, improve observability, and build reliable release processes. Your work will provide the foundations that empower development teams to deliver software quickly, safely, and consistently.

Key responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain automation for standing up GCP and Kubernetes environments end-to-end, actively reducing manual toil and driving operational efficiency across development teams

Build and harden secure, automated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD) to ensure rapid, reliable, and repeatable deployments of containerized services

Build robust monitoring, alerting, and logging into GCP/Kubernetes environments from the ground up, leading structured incident response, and driving continuous improvement in operational maturity

Design and implement automated tooling to streamline system and data migrations, ensuring legacy workloads are transitioned to modern containerized platforms with minimal risk and manual intervention

Integrate core systems and platform components—including API gateways, service meshes, event-driven architectures, and messaging queues to enable highly reliable, decoupled architectures

Break down ambiguous, multi-system problems and solve them systematically in close, cross-functional collaboration with the wider engineering organization

About you

Strong hands-on experience managing and scaling cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and orchestrating containerized workloads utilizing Kubernetes (GKE)

Proven capability to design, build, and maintain automation for standing up GCP and Kubernetes environments end-to-end

Hands-on expertise building and hardening secure, automated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD)

Practical experience building robust monitoring, alerting, and logging into GCP/Kubernetes environments from the ground up

Experience designing and implementing automated tooling to streamline system and data migrations

Strong background integrating core systems and platform components—including API gateways, service meshes, event-driven architectures, and messaging queues

Comfort operating in an AI-assisted engineering environment, leveraging modern tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot)

Demonstrated ability to break down ambiguous, multi-system problems and solve them systematically in close, cross-functional collaboration