Senior Platform Engineer

Auto & General Australia; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Work from home two days per week

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Auto & General Australia is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and improve our cloud platform, enabling developers to deliver high-quality software for customers. You will lead IaC, Kubernetes, and CI/CD initiatives across our Toowong-based team, driving security, efficiency, and reliability.

You’ll operate within a collaborative Cloud Platform squad, shaping platform solutions, accelerating delivery, and elevating standards through PIRs and innovation.

Qualifications

• Lead IaC design, development, and maintenance of Terraform modules and configurations.
• Collaborate with application teams to design platform solutions that accelerate software delivery.
• Develop and manage build and deployment pipelines for velocity, security, and reliability.
• Oversee Kubernetes environment including provisioning, networking, security hardening, and upgrades.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence and elevate standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead IaC design, development, and maintenance of Terraform modules and configurations.
• Accelerate software delivery by collaborating with application teams to design platform solutions.
• Develop and manage build and deployment pipelines to improve velocity and security.
• Oversee Kubernetes cluster management, provisioning, networking, security, and upgrades.
• Lead incident response efforts and conduct PIRs to prevent recurrence and raise standards.

Skills

Terraform

IaC

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud security

Incident response

Automation

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering or related field

Tools

AWS

CKA/CKAD

Job description

The position

As our Senior Platform Engineer, you'll build and improve the cloud platform that enables our developers to deliver high-quality software for our customers. We combine the latest technologies and techniques to build and run a modern, secure, and resilient platform hosting critical workloads for both our internal systems and our customers.

Brief Description

The position

As our Senior Platform Engineer, you'll build and improve the cloud platform that enables our developers to deliver high-quality software for our customers. We combine the latest technologies and techniques to build and run a modern, secure, and resilient platform hosting critical workloads for both our internal systems and our customers.

The Opportunity

You’ll operate in one of our collaborative, mission-driven squads within the larger Cloud Platform team. Each squad designs, builds, and implements platform improvements while maintaining our suite of tools and services. We value vision and creativity, and we’re passionate about continuous improvement and technology excellence.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you'll be a senior technical leader within the team. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Leading Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the design, development, and maintenance of complex Terraform modules and configurations, driving automation and standardisation across our cloud environments.
• Accelerating delivery: Collaborate closely with application development teams to design and build platform solutions that accelerate software delivery.
• Optimising pipelines: Develop and manage our build and deployment pipelines, driving continuous improvement in deployment velocity, security, and reliability.
• Kubernetes cluster management: Oversee our Kubernetes environment, including advanced cluster provisioning, container networking, security hardening, performance optimisation, and strategic upgrade planning.
• Leading incident response: Lead incident response efforts for critical cloud infrastructure issues and conduct comprehensive post-incident reviews (PIRs) to prevent recurrence. Elevating standards: Drive the adoption of innovative cloud solutions, continuously elevating our team's standards, technical capabilities, and best practices.

Essential

What experience you’ll bring

In this role, you'll be a senior technical leader within the team. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Leading Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the design, development, and maintenance of complex Terraform modules and configurations, driving automation and standardisation across our cloud environments.
• Accelerating delivery: Collaborate closely with application development teams to design and build platform solutions that accelerate software delivery.
• Optimising pipelines: Develop and manage our build and deployment pipelines, driving continuous improvement in deployment velocity, security, and reliability.
• Kubernetes cluster management: Oversee our Kubernetes environment, including advanced cluster provisioning, container networking, security hardening, performance optimisation, and strategic upgrade planning.
• Leading incident response: Lead incident response efforts for critical cloud infrastructure issues and conduct comprehensive post-incident reviews (PIRs) to prevent recurrence.
• Elevating standards: Drive the adoption of innovative cloud solutions, continuously elevating our team's standards, technical capabilities, and best practices.

Desirable

• Technical certifications: Relevant AWS, Kubernetes (e.g., CKA/CKAD), or equivalent industry certifications are highly recommended.
• Education: A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is desirable.

Location:

Toowong

Close to a variety of public transport and easy parking options, the Toowong office has excellent end of trip facilities (including secure bike storage and showers), outdoor spaces and plenty of modern collaborative areas to work and connect with colleagues. Conveniently based at Toowong Village tower with views of the mountains and the Brisbane River, our location is only 4 km from the city and provides access to retail, restaurants and other amenities.

The Benefits Of Working At A&G

• Be rewarded - we recognise high performance and reward our people for their hard work through bonuses and other perks.
• Work flexibility - with options to work from home two days per week.
• Options for leave - life happens, so we’ve got volunteer days, an additional paid ‘ME’ day, paid parental leave and the opportunity to purchase additional leave to cover all of the big stuff.
• Grow with us - we’ve got learning and professional development opportunities to suit everyone.
• Give back - our A&G Difference program gives you the power to change our community for the better through volunteering, fundraising and donation opportunities for causes that you’re passionate about.
• Take care of yourself - your wellbeing is important to us and our healthy mind and body hub, mental-health support and fitness discounts will help you be your best self.
• Celebrate the wins - we love sharing our successes and celebrating together - join us and you’ve got a ticket to our many on-site events throughout the year, family fun days and annual celebrations.
• Save money - as well as discounts on insurance products, we’ve teamed up with some incredible retailers, hospitality providers and others to bring you discounts on your purchases, no matter where you are in Australia.

About Us

• Auto & General (A&G) is the fastest-growing major Motor and Home insurer in Australia, providing insurance products and solutions to safeguard a brighter future for our customers and community.
• Our range of general insurance products including Car, Motorcycle, Home, Contents Pet and Travel products are delivered through our multi-award-winning brand Budget Direct and partnerships with leading brands - ING, Qantas, and Coles Insurance.
• We’re excited about the future and we’re always on the lookout for talented, passionate individuals who can help us achieve our goal of being Australia’s best insurer!
• Auto & General values individual differences and believes in fostering an inclusive culture that creates a great place to work for all.
• A note from Auto & General to recruitment agencies: We politely ask that you avoid making any approaches or sending any unsolicited resumes to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Leaders across our business. Auto & General is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.