Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud, SRE & DevOps (Remote)

Trail'D; Warrnambool; Hybrid; AUD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote & hybrid options

Global team

Rocketship growth

High eNPS score

Job summary

Traild, a high-growth SaaS company redefining finance automation, is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own end-to-end platform design, deployment, and reliability on GCP.

You will build infrastructure as code with Terraform, run Cloud Run and Kubernetes at scale, and raise security, observability, and developer experience across the stack.

This role offers remote, hybrid options and a global team, with a fast-moving rocketship environment that values ownership and pragmatic improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Cloud Run.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and microservices.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Strong background in observability (logging, monitoring, alerting).
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar for automation and tooling.
• Deep understanding of cloud security, identity management, and secure delivery practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and scale infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Build and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Operate Cloud Run and Kubernetes in production at scale.
• Architect and manage cloud networking, including VPCs, load balancers, firewalls, routing, and service meshes.
• Embed security best practices across infrastructure, deployments, and platform tooling.
• Design, build, and maintain internal developer tooling that improves code quality, delivery speed, and reliability.
• Own the CI/CD pipeline, enabling automated testing, safe deployments, and fast feedback loops.
• Improve local development workflows and ensure strong parity between development and production environments.
• Establish and evolve best practices for build systems, deployment automation, and platform standards.
• Own observability systems, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting, to improve visibility and incident response.
• Drive initiatives to reduce time-to-deploy and mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR).
• Improve platform performance, resilience, and cost efficiency through thoughtful automation and optimisation.

Skills

GCP expertise

Terraform

Kubernetes

Cloud Run

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Python

Go

Cloud security

Debugging

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Cloud Run

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Traild, a high-growth SaaS company redefining finance automation, is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own end-to-end platform design, deployment, and reliability on GCP.

You will build infrastructure as code with Terraform, run Cloud Run and Kubernetes at scale, and raise security, observability, and developer experience across the stack.

This role offers remote, hybrid options and a global team, with a fast-moving rocketship environment that values ownership and pragmatic improvements.