Senior Platform Engineer

Nearmap; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly wellbeing day off, fouradded

Wellbeing and technology allowance

Hybrid flexibility for this role

Nearmapsubscription (of course!)

Stocked kitchen with access to all the

In-office lunch every Tuesday and THu

Showers available for anyone cycling

Job summary

Nearmap is creating a new Platform Engineering role to shape the discipline from the ground up. You will lead the shift from DevOps to platform-as-a-product, building golden paths, self-service tools and reusable components that let our engineering teams ship independently, safely and fast.

Within the Platform team, you’ll design, build and operate cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and observability platforms. You’ll treat the platform as a product and engineering teams as your customers, owning

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in a platform or infrastructure engineering role.
• 3+ years with public cloud infrastructure, AWS preferred.
• Experience designing containerisation solutions with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong Linux infrastructure and cloud-native workloads.
• Extensive Terraform IaC experience.
• Experience designing CI/CD, logging, and monitoring tools for development teams.
• Experience implementing observability tools within Kubernetes and cloud workloads.
• Scripting and deployment automation experience.
• Experience working in a highly available production environment.
• Consulting or working in scale-driven environments is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Treat engineering teams as customers and gather platform requirements.
• Build self-service capabilities, golden paths, and reusable components.
• Design, build, and maintain platform tooling and automation across the SDLC.
• Use CI/CD platforms to automate provisioning, builds, tests, and releases.
• Write and deploy Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Maintain high availability of infrastructure and platforms, improve monitoring.
• Implement security controls as code, IAM least-privilege, secrets management.
• Educate teams on platform engineering practices and cloud security.
• Participate in design reviews and architecture decisions.

Skills

Platform engineering

Public cloud

Docker & Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Linux administration

Scripting

Production reliability

Consulting / scale BAU

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Property intelligence is reshaping how the world understands the built environment, andNearmapis driving that. Our technology turns property uncertainty into decisive action, and our culture brings out the best in the people who build it.

Job Description

This is a newly created role and your chance to shape platform engineering as a discipline at Nearmap from the ground up. You'll lead the shift from a traditional DevOps model to platform-as-a-product, building the golden paths, self-service tools, and reusable components that let our engineering teams ship independently, safely, and fast.

Working within the Platform team, you'll design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability platforms our engineering teams rely on daily. You'll treat the platform as a product and engineering teams as your customers, owning initiatives end to end from design through to operation, and communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the business.

Think a heavily customised Kubernetes implementation that teams self-serve from instead of waiting months for manual provisioning, or an alerting system that plugs straight into Slack instead of every team building their own bespoke tooling. That is the kind of platform thinking this role is about.

What you'll do

• Treat engineering teams as customers: gather requirements, triage platform requests, and feed recurring friction back into platform improvements
• Build self-service capabilities, golden paths, and reusable platform components that reduce ticket-driven work
• Design, build, and maintain platform tooling and automation across the software development lifecycle
• Use CI/CD platforms to automate infrastructure provisioning, builds, tests, and releases
• Write and deploy Infrastructure as Code using Terraform as the standard for all platform changes
• Maintain high availability of infrastructure and platform services, and improve monitoring and observability of production systems
• Implement security controls as code, including IAM least-privilege, secrets management, and container image scanning
• Influence and educate engineering teams on platform engineering practices and cloud infrastructure security
• Participate in design reviews and architecture decisions

About you

• You're an owner. You spot what's not working and fix it without waiting to be asked
• You welcome collaboration and bring a positive attitude to a fast-paced team
• You communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical people
• You're pragmatic, curious, and constantly improving your craft.

Qualifications

What you'll bring

• 5+ years' experience in a platform engineering or infrastructure engineering role
• 3+ years' experience with public cloud infrastructure, AWS preferred
• Experience designing and building application containerisation solutions with Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong experience supporting Linux infrastructure and cloud native workloads
• Extensive experience writing and deploying Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Experience designing CI/CD, logging, and monitoring tools for development teams
• Experience implementing observability tools within Kubernetes and cloud hosted workloads
• Scripting and deployment automation experience
• Experience working in a highly available production environment
• A background in consulting or at a company that builds and iterates at scale will set you up well here. Long-term BAU or highly structured environments won't be the right fit for this role.

Desirable but not essential:

GitOps and progressive delivery experience (ArgoCD or Flux), experience building or contributing to an internal developer platform (Backstage or equivalent), multi-tenant Kubernetes design, or SRE practices around SLOs and error budgets.

Additional Information

Working at Nearmap

We move fast, we care about craft, and we're proud of what we're building. If you're energised by turning strategy into pipeline and building real relationships with sales, we'd love to meet you.

If you can see yourself working at Nearmap and feel you have the right level of experience, we invite you to get in touch.

Some of our benefits

• Quarterly wellbeing day off, fouradditionaldays off annually for your 'YOU' Days
• Wellbeing and technology allowance
• Hybrid flexibility for this role
• Nearmapsubscription (of course!)
• Stocked kitchen with access to all the snacks you need
• In-office lunch every Tuesday and Thursday at our Sydney CBD office
• Showers available for anyone cycling to work or lunchtime gym-goers!

Why you'll love working at Nearmap:

We move fast and work smart; often wearing multiple hats. We’re proud of our inclusive, supportive culture, and maintain a safe environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and can be themselves.