Senior Cloud Platform Engineer | Kubernetes & Automation

Insignia Financial; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insignia Financial is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape our cloud-native platforms and automation. You will drive design, automation, and continuous improvement of containerised services, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code within our enterprise environment.

You will enable secure, scalable, and resilient platforms, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Architecture, Cyber Security, and delivery teams to achieve reliable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud or Infrastructure Engineering within large-scale enterprises.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps practices, and modern CI/CD tooling.
• Experience delivering platform modernization programs such as cloud transformation, container platform adoption, and infrastructure automation.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring technologies including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK (or similar).
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, Go, or equivalent.
• Experience with configuration management at scale (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement to influence technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support cloud-native platform services, container orchestration solutions, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation capabilities.
• Deliver strategic platform initiatives including cloud migration, Kubernetes platform uplift, IaC adoption, and self-service developer platforms.
• Drive platform reliability through observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, automation, and continuous service improvement.
• Embed secure-by-design principles and ensure platform services meet security, compliance, resilience, and governance requirements.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineers while promoting best practices across cloud, automation, and platform engineering.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Cyber Security, and delivery teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and well-governed technology outcomes.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD tooling

Python

Bash

Go

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Terraform

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Job description

Insignia Financial is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape our cloud-native platforms and automation. You will drive design, automation, and continuous improvement of containerised services, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code within our enterprise environment.

You will enable secure, scalable, and resilient platforms, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Architecture, Cyber Security, and delivery teams to achieve reliable business outcomes.