Technology Platform Lead

Place Estate Agents; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular team events

Gym membership subsidy

James Street office

Fun team culture

Job summary

Place Estate Agents is seeking a Technology Platform Lead to coordinate an AI-native engineering system across Azure, GitHub, and supporting tooling. You will work with product and IT teams to set standards for secure production tools and govern guardrails, cost control, and tool governance.

Reporting to the Head of Innovation and Product Development, you’ll collaborate with the HQ staff and vendors to drive one Place tech voice, inventory tools, and consolidate pilot platforms while

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform or cloud engineering.
• Hands-on with Azure, GitHub Actions, and IaC.
• Experience with AI coding tools daily.
• Monitoring and cloud cost management experience.
• Security fundamentals and secrets management.

Responsibilities

• Integrate AI agents into the software lifecycle and ensure proper back ends and credentials.
• Run guardrails, security checks and data compliance; maintain AI Governance Policy.
• Lead incident triage and predictive SRE practices to reduce alert noise.
• Optimize cloud costs and consolidate hosting platforms over time.
• Own admin access and security ownership for new platforms (Azure sandbox, GitHub, Supabase).

Skills

DevOps

Platform engineering

Cloud engineering

Azure

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Security scanning

IaC

Python

TypeScript

C#

Tools

Datadog

CloudWatch

Azure Monitor

Job description

At Place HQ, our people are already using Claude and Copilot Studio to build tools that make their work easier. Today, those tools sit across pilot and personal accounts, including Supabase, Firebase, Netlify and personal GitHub, without a single owner inside Place.

We’re looking for a Technology Platform Lead to lead an AI-native engineering system at Place, coordinating people, AI agents and automated platforms so good ideas become secure, supported production tools. You’ll work directly with the people building those tools and set the standards for how they move into production.

Where you fit

You’ll report to David Sparksman, Head of Innovation and Product Development, and work with Tamea Ramsay in Business Systems and the HQ staff who build tools.

Productivity, our managed service provider, handles day-to-day IT operations for 26 offices and around 700 staff, including onboarding and offboarding, licensing, split billing, patching, ITDR, incident reporting, domain management, ticketing and reporting, and Microsoft 365 system administration. NetEngine, Wingman, WMX and PPG build and run their own systems, and you’ll be Place’s technical voice with them.

What you’ll be doing

• AI agent and workflow orchestration: Integrate agentic tools (Azure AI agents, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Copilot Studio) into the software lifecycle for routine work such as infrastructure generation and test iteration. Help staff move useful tools into Place’s GitHub with proper back ends and credentials.
• Policy and governance: Run guardrails, security checks, code review and data compliance so AI-generated code or commands cannot put vulnerabilities into production. Put the AI Governance Policy into practice, keep the app and AI tool register current, and report to Change Advisory Board (CAB).
• Incident triage and predictive SRE: Use machine learning monitoring (for example Datadog, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor) and log summarisation agents to cut alert noise and speed up incident response for Place-built apps.
• Cloud cost optimisation: Use AI cost tools to audit billing, track resource drift and reduce cloud spend, consolidating hosting platforms over time.
• Owns admin access and security ownership for the new platforms (Azure sandbox, GitHub, Supabase)

Your first 90 days

• Days 1 to 30: Inventory the tools staff have built, where they run and who owns them. Meet Productivity and key vendors.
• Days 31 to 60: Set up one Place GitHub organisation and move tools into it. Consolidate pilot platforms and set up an Azure sandbox.
• Days 61 to 90: Agree a platform standard and AI guardrails with CAB, put monitoring and cost reporting in place, and deliver a first CAB report.

What we’re looking for

• Five or more years in DevOps, platform or cloud engineering.
• Hands on Azure, GitHub (Actions, CI/CD, security scanning) and infrastructure as code.
• Uses AI coding and agent tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI) daily and can show real work done with them.
• Monitoring, observability and cloud cost management.
• Solid security basics, including secrets management and what AI-written code tends to get wrong.
• Reads and writes code (Python, TypeScript or C#) and works confidently with APIs.
• Clear plain English with non-technical staff, executives and vendors.

Nice to have:

MCP servers or AI gateways, migrating apps from Supabase, Firebase or Netlify into Azure, real estate or franchise experience, and knowledge of the Privacy Act and Essential Eight.

Success after 12 months

• All Place code in one Place GitHub, and no production tool on a personal account.
• Guardrails and review applied to every tool before it reaches production.
• Monitoring on Place-built apps, with less alert noise and faster response.
• Cloud spend understood, reported and reduced.

The benefits

• Be part of a motivated and driven team who genuinely love to have fun along the way
• Regular team and social events
• Subsidised TotalFusion gym membership
• Beautiful office in the heart of James Street