Platform Engineering Lead - AI-Driven Cloud & Infra

Halcyon Knights; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working environment

Global footprint

Career growth into tech leadership

Job summary

Halcyon Knights in Melbourne is seeking a Platform Lead to drive platform engineering, cloud strategy and production readiness for a global SaaS product. You will work with the CTO and cross-functional teams across software, DevOps, security, data and hardware to shape architecture and standards.

This role remains hands-on with cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD pipelines and production systems, while providing technical leadership and mentoring to engineers.

Qualifications

• Strong AWS experience with production cloud architecture
• Background in Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE
• Hands-on Infra as Code with Terraform

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve production platforms for a globally used SaaS product
• Maintain hands-on cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD and production systems
• Shape engineering standards and platform architecture; mentor engineers and collaborate with CTO

Skills

AWS

Platform Engineering

DevOps

CI/CD

Kafka

Python/Go/TypeScript

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Halcyon Knights in Melbourne is seeking a Platform Lead to drive platform engineering, cloud strategy and production readiness for a global SaaS product. You will work with the CTO and cross-functional teams across software, DevOps, security, data and hardware to shape architecture and standards.

This role remains hands-on with cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD pipelines and production systems, while providing technical leadership and mentoring to engineers.