Platform & Security Engineer: Secure Cloud, CI/CD & Automation

Racing Victoria Group; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Great team culture

On-site cafe and free parking

Job summary

Racing Victoria Group (RVG) is a leading Australian sporting organisation and the independent governing body of thoroughbred racing in Victoria. We seek a hands-on Platform & Security Engineer to support cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, observability, automation and developer enablement tooling.

This role reports to the Head of Platforms & Cyber Security and focuses on secure-by-default infrastructure, IaC, monitoring and DevSecOps, helping deliver reliable, secure platforms for RVG's

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud infrastructure management, platform engineering and DevSecOps practices.
• Strong capability across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Ability to translate security findings into practical fixes for cloud, container and CI/CD environments.
• Familiarity with security controls and policy enforcement across AWS, Azure and M365.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across platform, engineering and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage, operate and continually improve RVG’s technology platforms, including cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, observability and developer tooling.
• Implement secure-by-default platform standards across AWS, with coverage across Azure and Microsoft 365 where applicable.
• Maintain system uptime and security posture through logging, alerting, monitoring and reporting.
• Integrate security controls into software delivery workflows, including secrets protection and vulnerability scanning.
• Use Infrastructure as Code to automate deployment and environment management.
• Lead remediation of security findings across cloud, CI/CD pipelines, containers and services.
• Collaborate with engineering and platform teams to track remediation actions to closure.
• Build automation for log enrichment, alert summarisation and operational reporting.
• Support secure adoption of approved AI services and AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Contribute to business continuity and disaster recovery infrastructure planning and testing.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure management

Platform engineering

DevSecOps practices

AWS expertise

CI/CD pipelines

Security remediation

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

JIRA

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Docker

Azure

Microsoft 365

Job description

Racing Victoria Group (RVG) is a leading Australian sporting organisation and the independent governing body of thoroughbred racing in Victoria. We seek a hands-on Platform & Security Engineer to support cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, observability, automation and developer enablement tooling.

This role reports to the Head of Platforms & Cyber Security and focuses on secure-by-default infrastructure, IaC, monitoring and DevSecOps, helping deliver reliable, secure platforms for RVG's