Principal Platform Engineer

PRA; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 190,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous parental leave

Share plan and leadership learning

In-office Melbourne, 4 days a week

Job summary

PRA is seeking a senior, hands-on cloud/platform engineer in Melbourne to shape the central platforms function. You will define landing zones across AWS and Azure, lead a container-based hosting platform, and guide migration of workloads with a focus on reliability and scale.

Report to the head of cloud, platforms and infrastructure and collaborate with development teams. With 10+ years in cloud and strong AWS expertise, you’ll architect patterns, drive automation, and mentor peers.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cloud, infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Deep AWS expertise with landing zones and multi-account setup.
• Hands-on design/operation of Kubernetes and container platforms.
• Experience embedding Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi in CI/CD.
• Proven mentoring and cloud migration leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define landing zones, reference designs and architecture patterns across AWS and Azure.
• Lead design and evolution of container-based hosting platform.
• Set observability, IaC and automation standards development teams build on.
• Guide migration strategies for application workloads based on complexity, risk and business criticality.
• Step into complex incidents and escalations across infrastructure, networking and application layers.

Skills

10+ years cloud/platform engineering

AWS expertise

Kubernetes / container platforms

Terraform / Pulumi / CloudFormation

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Kubernetes

ECS

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

• Generous parental leave, share plan and leadership learning

• $190k to $210k + bonus
• Melbourne, 4 days a week in office
• Generous parental leave, share plan and leadership learning

About the opportunity

This is a senior, hands-on engineering role in the central platforms function of a large ASX-listed organisation. The team builds and runs the platforms the rest of the business relies on, and this role sits at the heart of that work: setting cloud architecture patterns across AWS and Azure, steering the next stage of a container-based hosting platform, and guiding application workloads through migration.

You’ll report to the head of cloud, platforms and infrastructure and work directly with development teams, so the standards you set show up in how software is actually built and run across the organisation.

The role

• Define landing zones, reference designs and architecture patterns across AWS and Azure
• Lead the design and ongoing evolution of the container-based application hosting platform
• Set the observability, infrastructure as code and automation standards development teams build on
• Guide migration strategies for application workloads based on complexity, risk and business criticality
• Step into complex incidents and escalations across infrastructure, networking and application layers

What you'll bring

• 10+ years in cloud, infrastructure or platform engineering, including large-scale enterprise cloud delivery
• Deep AWS expertise, with landing zone, multi-account and well-architected experience
• Hands-on design and operation of Kubernetes, ECS or similar container platforms
• Extensive Terraform, CloudFormation or Pulumi, embedded in CI/CD pipelines
• A track record of mentoring engineers and leading cloud migration programs

Hands-on Azure is highly regarded, as are cloud or Kubernetes certifications, multi-cloud experience and a software development or DevOps background.

Culture

• Agile delivery (Scrum or Kanban) alongside development teams
• Close collaboration with security, architecture and enterprise IT
• Room to evaluate and adopt new cloud tooling where it genuinely improves developer experience
• A purpose-led, values-driven organisation