Platform Engineer

Open Universities Australia Pty; Victoria; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

12 weeks parental leave

Study leave

Calm subscription

Novated leasing

Health insurance

Gym discount

Job summary

Open Universities Australia is seeking a Platform Engineer to simplify engineering for our digital products. You will build platform services and tooling, partnering with product engineers to reduce friction, automate workflows and deliver reliable software on AWS.

This hands-on role blends software development and cloud operations, with opportunities to explore AI-assisted development and coding agents to improve delivery. Hybrid work options apply.

Qualifications

• Practical software engineering experience.
• DevOps mindset with automation.
• Hands-on AWS experience.
• Strong networking fundamentals.
• Security-minded engineering decisions.
• Ownership and initiative.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn.
• Interest in AI and coding agents.
• Passion for platform enablement.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain platform services, APIs, tooling.
• Work with product engineers to remove bottlenecks.
• Develop and maintain AWS infrastructure through code.
• Improve CI, testing, deployment and observability.
• Troubleshoot across app, infra and networking.
• Embed security into engineering decisions.
• Create reusable tools and self-service capabilities.
• Explore AI tools and coding agents for improvements.
• Manage cloud cost without compromising reliability.

Skills

Software engineering

DevOps mindset

Hands-on AWS

Networking fundamentals

Security mindset

Ownership

Curiosity and learning

AI and coding agents

Platform enablement

TypeScript

Tools

TypeScript

AWS

Job description

• Build platforms and tooling that make great engineering simple and easy
• Hands‑on TypeScript, AWS and developer enablement
• Explore how AI and coding agents can improve the way we build software

At Open Universities Australia (OUA), we believe quality education should be accessible to everyone.

For more than 30 years, we've helped over 400,000 students take their next step. Often during some of the most important moments of their lives. Every experience we create, conversation we have and decision we make helps open new doors for learners across Australia.

When we do our best work, we help change lives every day.

Our values guide how we work together. We act for our customers, care for each other and focus on continuous improvement. We're proud of our friendly, curious and inclusive culture where people are trusted, supported and encouraged to grow.

Job Description

As a Platform Engineer, you'll help make life easier for the engineers building OUA's digital products.

Your primary customers are our product engineering teams. You'll work closely with them to understand how they build, test, deploy and support software, identify friction, and optimise those activities through automation, self‑service capabilities and practical guidance.

This is a hands‑on engineering role combining software development and cloud operations. You'll build services and developer tooling in TypeScript, maintain AWS infrastructure and help shape how we continuously improve the way software gets from an idea into production.

You'll also have the opportunity to explore how AI‑assisted development and coding agents can improve engineering workflows and automate more of the software delivery process.

What you'll be doing

You'll take ownership of meaningful pieces of work from understanding the problem through to delivery and ongoing support. This includes:

Building and maintaining platform services, APIs, developer tooling and automation

Working alongside product engineers to understand their needs, remove delivery bottlenecks and make services easier to build and operate

Develop and maintain AWS infrastructure through code, with security, reliability, scalability and cost in mind

Improving the platforms and workflows that support continuous integration, testing, deployment and observability

Troubleshooting across application, infrastructure and networking layers and contributing to incident response

Embedding security into everyday engineering, including access controls, networking, secrets management and dependency maintenance

Turning repetitive operational work and recurring support needs into reusable tools, documentation and self‑service capabilities

Exploring new AWS capabilities, AI tools and coding agents and applying them where they create meaningful improvements

Understanding the cost of our cloud environment and helping identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary spend without compromising reliability or security

What we're looking for

We're looking for someone who enjoys building software and helping other engineers do their best work. You'll thrive in this role if you bring:

Practical software engineering experience - you've built, tested, deployed and maintained software services and understand the day‑to‑day experience of a product engineer

A DevOps mindset - you value shared ownership, automation, fast feedback and continuous improvement, and you're comfortable supporting what you build in production

Hands‑on AWS experience - you understand core AWS compute, storage, networking, identity and observability services and have experience managing infrastructure through code

Strong networking fundamentals - you're comfortable with concepts such as TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, routing, subnets, firewalls and load balancing

A security mindset - you think about how systems might fail or be misused and make security part of everyday engineering decisions

Ownership and initiative - you can take an unclear problem, turn it into practical next steps and follow it through to completion

Curiosity and a drive to learn - you enjoy experimenting with new technologies and adapting your approach as you learn

An interest in AI and coding agents - you're actively curious about how AI‑assisted development can improve the way software is built and operated

A passion for platform enablement - you enjoy helping other engineers achieve more and building solutions they can understand and use independently

Why you'll love working at OUA

OUA is a not‑for‑profit organisation with a strong people‑first mindset. We offer meaningful work that changes lives while supporting the wellbeing, growth and belonging of our team.

When you join OUA, you become part of a supportive and inclusive environment where your ideas are valued and your development matters.

Flexibility and ways of working

Hybrid ways of working

Workation leave, giving you the option to work from anywhere for up to 10 days each year

Leave that supports you

12 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, regardless of gender

Additional purchased leave to support greater flexibility

Menstrual and menopausal wellbeing leave with up to six additional paid days each year

Inclusive leave to celebrate cultural or personal events

An additional paid Celebrate You day each year for your birthday

Health and wellbeing

Discounted gym memberships and health insurance

A paid Calm subscription to support your wellbeing

Learning, growth and financial benefits

Short‑term incentives and not‑for‑profit salary packaging, including novated leasing

Subsidised study opportunities and study leave

Learning and professional development opportunities