Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud-Native & Kubernetes

Insignia Financial; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insignia Financial is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape the cloud‑native platforms powering our enterprise tech environment. You will drive design, automation, and continuous improvement of containerised services and developer tooling within Infrastructure, Cloud & Workplace, delivering secure, scalable solutions for critical services.

This hands‑on role requires 7+ years in platform engineering or related fields, strong AWS/Kubernetes/Terraform experience, and a focus on

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infra in large‑scale enterprises.
• Hands‑on with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and modern CI/CD tooling.
• Experience delivering platform modernisation programs such as cloud transformation and container platform adoption.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring technologies (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Strong scripting and automation using Python, Bash, Go.
• Experience with configuration management (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.
• Deliver strategic platform initiatives including cloud migration, Kubernetes uplift, IaC adoption, and self‑service developer platforms.
• Drive platform reliability through observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Embed secure‑by‑design principles and ensure platform services meet security, resilience, and governance requirements.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineers while promoting best practices.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Cyber Security, and delivery teams to deliver scalable, well‑governed outcomes.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Cloud engineering

CI/CD tooling

Scripting

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Python

Bash

Go

Job description

Insignia Financial is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape the cloud‑native platforms powering our enterprise tech environment. You will drive design, automation, and continuous improvement of containerised services and developer tooling within Infrastructure, Cloud & Workplace, delivering secure, scalable solutions for critical services.

This hands‑on role requires 7+ years in platform engineering or related fields, strong AWS/Kubernetes/Terraform experience, and a focus on