Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: AI-Driven DevOps Leader

Compare Club; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Compare Club is seeking a deeply hands-on Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to lead the DevOps team and drive engineering of our cloud platform. This is a technical leadership role with 70% hands-on work and 30% mentorship of two DevOps engineers in Vietnam.

You’ll modernise the AWS estate, move to GitHub Actions and GitOps, and strengthen security and cost discipline while delivering platform roadmaps and reliable operations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure, DevOps or platform engineering.
• Production AWS experience including ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront, WAF, Route 53, IAM Identity Center, SSM and Secrets Manager.
• Comfortable in a terminal and design reviews; not seeking full-time management.
• Experience delivering in a production AWS environment with complex workloads.

Responsibilities

• Own the team’s engineering standards and platform roadmap; be the first escalation point for cloud platform matters.
• Design out manual effort with Python, Bash and agentic automation; support AI workloads on AWS Bedrock and SageMaker.
• Complete move to GitHub Actions and GitOps; migrate Elastic Beanstalk estate to Terraform.
• Define SLOs; improve observability; lead major incident response; establish after-hours on‑call rotation.
• Maintain ISO 27001 and PCI DSS controls; strengthen secrets, access and edge protection.
• Build cost visibility; deliver savings across the platform, including AI/ML workloads.
• Lead and mentor two DevOps engineers; share ownership of every production domain.

Skills

ECS (EC2 & Fargate)

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Python

Bash

Security & Compliance

AI in Operations

Tools

Checkov

New Relic

CloudWatch

S3

Job description

Compare Club is seeking a deeply hands-on Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to lead the DevOps team and drive engineering of our cloud platform. This is a technical leadership role with 70% hands-on work and 30% mentorship of two DevOps engineers in Vietnam.

You’ll modernise the AWS estate, move to GitHub Actions and GitOps, and strengthen security and cost discipline while delivering platform roadmaps and reliable operations.