Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & Linux Champion

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Aussie Broadband is seeking a senior platform engineer to maintain and evolve our secure, scalable infrastructure. You will design platform architectures, champion IaC, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable services.

In this role you’ll drive automation, implement observability, and mentor teammates, taking ownership of critical projects and participating in on-call rotations to safeguard uptime.

Qualifications

• Passionate about open-source, modern infrastructure and continuous improvement.
• An understanding of the telco industry and its operational and technology landscape.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (on-prem & upstream desired).
• Expert-level Linux system administration and orchestration, with a focus on automation and scale.
• Proven experience designing and operating highly available, distributed systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the security, reliability, and availability of Aussie Broadband’s critical systems infrastructure.
• Design and evolve platform architecture to deliver scalable, observable and secure solutions for internal and external customers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across a broad range of experience and skills to deliver business outcomes.
• Deliver highly available, scalable and resilient platforms and services to support business growth and initiatives.
• Build, automate and enhance on-premises containerised & virtualised workloads, with a strong focus on infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Support development teams by providing platform capabilities, tooling and environments that accelerate delivery.
• Champion reliability practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident response and post incident reviews.
• Continuously improve platform performance, cost-efficiency and developer experience through proactive engineering and feedback loops.
• Contribute to technical documentation, standards and knowledge sharing across the engineering organisation.
• Act as an escalation point and provide technical guidance and support to other members of the systems team, helping resolve complex issues and drive continuous improvement.
• Mentor and help develop junior team members through coaching, knowledge sharing, and technical training.
• Take ownership of delivering assigned projects and business outcomes end-to-end, applying established architectural and design patterns with minimal oversight.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure platform reliability and rapid response to critical incidents.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux administration

Service mesh

InfrastructureasCode

GitOps

Automation

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Linkerd

Terraform

Ansible

Tinkerbell

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Otel

Jaeger

ArgoCD

Git

Flux

CI/CD tooling

eBPF/XDP

VPP

Go

Python

Job description

Aussie Broadband is seeking a senior platform engineer to maintain and evolve our secure, scalable infrastructure. You will design platform architectures, champion IaC, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable services.

In this role you’ll drive automation, implement observability, and mentor teammates, taking ownership of critical projects and participating in on-call rotations to safeguard uptime.