Principal Platform Engineer: Cloud, AI & DevOps Leader

Objective; Sydney, Wollongong City Council; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Objective is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to shape our cloud and platform engineering capabilities, working across AWS, DevOps, internal developer platforms and AI infrastructure to enable our teams to build, deploy and scale secure, high-performing software.

Reporting to the Cloud Operations Director, you will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers and lead DevOps practices, security and cost optimisation while collaborating with our CTO, CISO and product teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and architecting AWS environments.
• Strong hands-on Platform Engineering, including internal developer platforms.
• Deep expertise in DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, GitLab).
• Experience with modern cloud architectures including microservices and containers.
• Experience managing AI/ML infrastructure and LLM platforms.
• Strong programming and automation skills (Python, Go or Java).
• Sound understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking and compliance.
• Experience with developer portal technologies such as Backstage.

Responsibilities

• Shape our platform engineering strategy and roadmaps for AWS cloud platforms and DevOps tooling.
• Build scalable, self-service infrastructure and developer tooling for faster software delivery.
• Drive automation and modern DevOps practices across CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Enable AI innovation with infrastructure for AI/ML workloads and model deployment pipelines.
• Champion security, governance, scalability and reliability across platform architecture.
• Lead through technical expertise, mentoring engineers and influencing product teams.
• Optimise cloud performance and costs via continuous improvements.
• Explore emerging cloud, platform and AI technologies for innovation.

Skills

AWS architectures

Platform engineering

DevOps & CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitLab

IaC

Python

AI/ML infra

Security & IAM

Backstage

Mentoring

Tools

Backstage

GitLab

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Objective is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to shape our cloud and platform engineering capabilities, working across AWS, DevOps, internal developer platforms and AI infrastructure to enable our teams to build, deploy and scale secure, high-performing software.

Reporting to the Cloud Operations Director, you will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers and lead DevOps practices, security and cost optimisation while collaborating with our CTO, CISO and product teams.