Platform Engineer – Cloud Reliability & Automation (Hybrid)

TheDriveGroup; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 160,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive day rate

Sydney office access

Contract extension potential

Job summary

TheDriveGroup in Sydney is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer for a 6-month contract to focus on platform reliability, cloud infrastructure, and automation. The role combines production support, infrastructure engineering, and automation with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance of cloud-based platforms.

You'll work across SRE and Platform Engineering, maintaining production environments, building IaC with Terraform, and developing automation in Python/Bash.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in SRE/Platform Engineering or DevOps.
• Proficient with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS).
• Strong scripting in Python and Bash.
• IaC experience, preferably Terraform.
• Familiar with CI/CD and production environments.
• Knowledge of observability and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the reliability, availability and performance of production environments.
• Troubleshoot incidents and identify root causes with long-term fixes.
• Build and improve Infrastructure as Code to provision cloud infrastructure.
• Develop automation using Python and Bash to reduce manual processes.
• Support and optimise GCP and AWS environments for scalability and security.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes for reliable deployments.
• Implement and enhance monitoring, observability and reliability practices.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to productionize new infrastructure components.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Platform Engineering

DevOps

Python

Bash

CI/CD

GCP

AWS

Observability

Incident management

Tools

Terraform

Job description

TheDriveGroup in Sydney is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer for a 6-month contract to focus on platform reliability, cloud infrastructure, and automation. The role combines production support, infrastructure engineering, and automation with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance of cloud-based platforms.

You'll work across SRE and Platform Engineering, maintaining production environments, building IaC with Terraform, and developing automation in Python/Bash.