Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer

TheDriveGroup; City of Melbourne; Remote; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

TheDriveGroup is seeking a Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer to own and evolve the cloud and infrastructure foundations behind a distributed data platform.

You will shape the platform’s technical direction, focusing on security, IaC, pipelines and operation of Spark, Kafka, Presto/Trino, Iceberg and Airflow to optimize performance and cost.

Qualifications

• Experience designing cloud/platform foundations for data workloads in a distributed environment.
• Strong understanding of security, IaC and deployment pipelines.
• Ability to own and drive architecture and engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Own CI/CD, release engineering and developer productivity for the platform.
• Manage IAM, cloud security, secrets, encryption and supply chain security.
• Improve observability, reliability, resilience and cloud cost optimisation.

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Presto/Trino

Iceberg

Airflow

Job description

I’m looking for a Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer to take ownership of the cloud and infrastructure foundations behind a complex data platform.

This isn’t a role where you’ll inherit a mature AWS environment and simply keep the lights on.

You’ll be responsible for taking an existing cloud footprint and turning it into a deliberately designed, secure and scalable platform, with genuine ownership over the technical direction.

The role will cover:

• CI/CD, release engineering & developer productivity
• IAM, cloud security, secrets, encryption & supply chain security
• Observability, reliability, resilience & cloud cost optimisation

The data side is particularly important.

You’ll be supporting the infrastructure behind a distributed data platform, so experience operating, securing or tuning technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Presto/Trino, Iceberg or Airflow would be highly regarded.

They’re looking for someone who understands the whole platform, not just individual AWS services. You should be comfortable thinking about account architecture, networking, identity, security, IaC, deployment pipelines, developer experience and the data workloads running on top of it.

This could be a great move if you’ve built cloud/platform capability from the ground up before and want the autonomy to do it properly again.

There’s no people management requirement. This is a senior individual contributor role where your impact comes from technical depth, architecture and setting the engineering standard.

Remote anywhere in Australia

Existing ongoing Australian working rights required

If you have any questions about this role or others we have available, you can email Hayley directly via [e-mail]

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