Platform Engineer (6-Month Fixed-Term) | Azure, GitLab, GitHub & Azure DevOps

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

Central Sydney (Pitt Street) | Hybrid: 3 days in the office, 2 from home

Love building pipelines that engineers actually trust? We’re looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer to take ownership of CI/CD for our Dataworks team, and to do it with AI agentic tooling that’s already built and ready to use.

About Neilson

Neilson Financial Services is a global life insurance distributor operating across the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. With over 1,000 employees and more than 650,000 policies issued, we help families secure financial protection for their loved ones through locally based contact centres.

Launched in the UK in 2012, Neilson expanded into Canada in 2021 and entered the Australian and New Zealand markets in late 2024. In that time, Neilson ANZ has launched six brands across the funeral and life insurance markets and become the country’s third largest direct distributor of life insurance.

Our values underpin everything we do: Customer Focused — we earn our customers’ loyalty by exceeding their expectations. Results Driven — we are passionate about results through hard work, continuous improvement, and a professional approach. Team Spirited — as individuals we are good, but as a team we are better.

The role

Our core Platform Engineering team is focused on foundational infrastructure and AI skills, which means this role owns the day-to-day pipeline work end to end. You’ll have real autonomy, shared templates to build from, and a clear picture of what success looks like.

What you’ll be doing

Building, maintaining, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines across GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps Pipelines

Working directly with Dataworks engineers to turn their delivery needs into reliable, repeatable pipelines

Deploying to Azure with Terraform or Bicep, including AKS where applicable

Building security scanning, auditability, and change control into every pipeline

Using AI coding tools and agentic workflows to speed up development and migration work, and feeding back so we can improve them

Documenting everything so the Dataworks team can own it when your term ends

What you’ll bring

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.

A clearly scoped 6-month fixed-term role with defined 30-day, 3-month, and 6-month goals

Hybrid working: three days in our central Sydney office on Pitt Street, two days from home

Subsidised catered lunch up to $22

Hands-on work with AI agentic tooling in a regulated environment where engineering quality matters