Senior Platform Engineer

Insignia Financial; City of Hobart; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insignia Financial in Hobart, Australia, is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape the platforms powering our enterprise technology. You will design, automate, and improve cloud-native platforms, developer tooling, and containerised services within our Infrastructure, Cloud & Workplace team.

This hands-on role focuses on secure, scalable, and resilient solutions, guiding delivery teams and embedding secure-by-design principles across cloud, automation, and platform engineering.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering in large-scale environments.
• Strong hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and modern CI/CD tooling.
• Experience delivering platform modernisation programs (cloud transformation, container platform adoption).
• Knowledge of observability/monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or similar.
• Scripting/automation in Python, Bash, Go, or equivalents.
• Configuration management at scale (Ansible, Puppet, Chef or similar).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement to influence decisions and mentor peers.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support cloud-native platform services, container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives including cloud transformation and self-service developer platforms.
• Improve reliability via observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, automation, and continuous service improvement.
• Embed secure-by-design principles and ensure governance, security and resilience across platform services.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineers and promote best practices across cloud and automation.

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD tooling

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Python

Bash

Go

Ansible

Job description

• Helping around 2 million Australians do more with their money
• Together, we’re making it happen

• A career that works for you
• Helping around 2 million Australians do more with their money
• Together, we’re making it happen

The opportunity to join our team

Join Insignia Financial as a Senior Platform Engineer and play a key role in shaping the platforms that power our enterprise technology environment. Working within our Infrastructure, Cloud & Workplace team, you’ll drive the design, automation, and continuous improvement of cloud-native platforms, developer tooling, and containerised services. This is a hands‑on engineering role where you’ll help deliver secure, scalable, and resilient solutions that support critical business and client‑facing services. If you thrive on solving complex technical challenges and enabling high‑performing delivery teams, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact.

Key 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, Infrastructure-as-Code 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.

What You Will Bring

• 7+ years’ experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering within large‑scale enterprise environments.
• Strong hands‑on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps practices, and modern CI/CD tooling.
• Experience delivering platform modernisation programs such as cloud transformation, container platform adoption, and infrastructure automation initiatives.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring technologies including tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Elastic, or similar platforms.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using technologies such as Python, Bash, Go, or equivalent.
• Experience with configuration management at scale with Ansible, Puppet, Chef or similar.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions, mentor peers, and translate complex technical concepts into practical business outcomes.

People-inspired tech

Deep expertise combined with creativity can take on the trickiest of problems. Join our team of brilliant minds and mentors as we explore our way to innovation and apply technology in more human ways than ever.

Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in Australia, and at a minimum be required to undertake police and basic credit checks as a condition of employment.

Please note that applications from agencies will not be considered at this time.

We acknowledge and celebrate the richness that individual differences bring to our team. If you need assistance or an adjustment during the application process, please reach out and let us know.