Platform Engineer: GitLab CI/CD & AWS Orchestration

Jobtailor; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Sydney, NSW is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to own and optimize our GitLab CI/CD pipelines across multiple regions. You will migrate legacy deployments to per-repository pipelines, run parallel cutovers, and validate migrations with live traffic to ensure service health.

You will document decisions and contribute to tooling and templates for scalable deployment. The role involves collaboration with a hands-on team, supporting ~250 active repositories across Lambda, ECS

Qualifications

• Deep experience with GitLab CI/CD including multi-stage pipelines and self-hosted runners.
• AWS CodeDeploy with canary/blue-green deployments and automated rollback.
• Multi-region orchestration across Lambda, ECS Fargate and EC2.
• Strong IAM cross-account roles knowledge and CloudFormation/SSM Parameter Store.
• Experience delivering migrations or modernisation in live production.
• Shell scripting and AWS CLI fluency.
• Ability to build pipelines for AI-assisted and agent-driven workflows.
• AWS CDK experience in TypeScript or Python.
• Experience migrating from legacy CI/CD systems with parallel run and cutover.
• Knowledge of .NET build pipelines and deployment packaging.
• DORA metrics and deployment frequency observability.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship GitLab CI/CD pipelines service by service.
• Implement CodeDeploy canary deployments with multi-region orchestration and automated rollbacks.
• Migrate services from legacy deployment to per-repo pipelines.
• Run old and new pipelines in parallel for zero-risk cutover.
• Validate migrations against live production traffic and health checks.
• Complete pre-migration audits and determine what to retain, redesign or remove.
• Document decisions, issues and fixes in repositories.
• Improve pipeline standards and reference patterns.
• Contribute to shared GitLab templates and self-service tooling.
• Coordinate with development teams on production deployment windows.
• Support deployment experiences across multiple regions and services.

Skills

GitLab CI/CD

AWS CodeDeploy

Multi-Region Orchestration

IAM cross-account roles

CloudFormation

SSM Parameter Store

Shell Scripting

AWS CDK

TypeScript

Python

.NET Build Pipelines

DORA Metrics

Tools

AWS CLI

AWS CDK

TypeScript

Python

CloudFormation

Lambda

ECS Fargate

ECS Windows

EC2

S3

CloudFront

Job description

Jobtailor in Sydney, NSW is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to own and optimize our GitLab CI/CD pipelines across multiple regions. You will migrate legacy deployments to per-repository pipelines, run parallel cutovers, and validate migrations with live traffic to ensure service health.

You will document decisions and contribute to tooling and templates for scalable deployment. The role involves collaboration with a hands-on team, supporting ~250 active repositories across Lambda, ECS