Senior Platform Engineer

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

• 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.