Platform Engineer

ProFound People Pty Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ProFound People Pty Ltd in Sydney seeks a Platform Engineer to join the team behind its internal compute platform. You'll own and optimize a mix of on-premise hardware and cloud resources to support rapid product development.

You will manage a scheduler-based cluster (Slurm), container platforms (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines, while improving automation with Terraform/Ansible. Strong Linux and scripting skills are required.

Qualifications

• Experience with distributed compute environments and schedulers.
• Strong Linux and scripting skills. Familiarity with container platforms.

Responsibilities

• You're the person people turn to when a cluster is slow, a build is broken, or a team needs an environment by Friday.
• You'll run and tune a scheduler-based compute cluster that handles heavy number-crunching, keep the build and release pipelines healthy across several product lines, and look after the container platform that internal tools run on.
• When something fails you find the cause, fix it properly and write down what you learned. Over time you'd turn hand-built setups into repeatable code, so a new environment takes hours instead of weeks.
• You've run a real compute cluster, not just submitted jobs to one, ideally with Slurm or a similar scheduler.
• You're comfortable with containers and Kubernetes day to day, you automate with tools like Terraform or Ansible, and you've owned a CI/CD pipeline rather than just used one.
• You're strong on Linux and scripting, and you know the network basics well enough to chase down name resolution, addressing and time sync problems.
• Three or more years in platform, DevOps or infrastructure work is the benchmark.
• Helpful extras: a research or scientific computing background, monitoring and dashboards, and wider network knowledge.

Skills

Kubernetes

Slurm

Linux

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Scripting

Docker

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Slurm

Job description

A well-funded Sydney engineering company is hiring a Platform Engineer into the team behind its internal compute.

Some of the compute sits on hardware the company owns and some is in the cloud.

Responsibilities

• You're be the person people turn to when a cluster is slow, a build is broken, or a team needs an environment by Friday.
• You'll run and tune a scheduler-based compute cluster that handles heavy number-crunching, keep the build and release pipelines healthy across several product lines, and look after the container platform that internal tools run on.
• When something fails you find the cause, fix it properly and write down what you learned. Over time you'd turn hand-built setups into repeatable code, so a new environment takes hours instead of weeks.
• You've run a real compute cluster, not just submitted jobs to one, ideally with Slurm or a similar scheduler.
• You're comfortable with containers and Kubernetes day to day, you automate with tools like Terraform or Ansible, and you've owned a CI/CD pipeline rather than just used one.
• You're strong on Linux and scripting, and you know the network basics well enough to chase down name resolution, addressing and time sync problems.
• Three or more years in platform, DevOps or infrastructure work is the benchmark.

Helpful extras: a research or scientific computing background, monitoring and dashboards, and wider network knowledge.