Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, Security & AI

CircuIT Recruitment Group; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 167,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

CircuIT Recruitment Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in Melbourne to lead cloud infrastructure and the AWS EKS container platform in a security-first build phase. You will influence how the platform is run within a close-knit engineering team, moving from ClickOps to infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities include embedding security into CI/CD, automating audit evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, building observability and incident response, and enabling AI workloads safely at scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, platform or SRE roles supporting production SaaS with security as a recurring theme.
• Strong AWS experience (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3).
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK or similar).
• Solid Docker, Linux and container orchestration fundamentals.
• Hands on experience with cloud IAM, KMS and secrets management.
• Experience embedding security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable participating in incident response and on-call for reliability and security events.

Responsibilities

• Owning cloud infrastructure and the container platform (AWS EKS), moving it from ClickOps into infrastructure as code.
• Embedding security as a paved road across the engineering team, covering secrets management, identity and access, and policy as code guardrails.
• Automating control enforcement and evidence collection for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, and owning technical evidence during audits.
• Building security into CI/CD pipelines, including dependency, secret, container and IaC scanning.
• Implementing and maintaining observability, alerting and incident response for both reliability and security events.
• Improving developer experience through better local workflows, automation and consistent environments.
• Helping the business safely enable AI at scale, including securing LLM, RAG and vector workloads.

Skills

DevOps / Platform / SRE experience

AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3)

CI/CD security integration

Docker & Linux fundamentals

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK

Secrets management & IAM

Incident response / on-call

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Job description

CircuIT Recruitment Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in Melbourne to lead cloud infrastructure and the AWS EKS container platform in a security-first build phase. You will influence how the platform is run within a close-knit engineering team, moving from ClickOps to infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities include embedding security into CI/CD, automating audit evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, building observability and incident response, and enabling AI workloads safely at scale.