Your role at St John of God Health Care Join St John of God Health Care and help shape the future of cloud technology in one of Australia's largest not-for-profit healthcare organisations. We are seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to lead the support and management of our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment and future hybrid cloud ecosystems. This is an opportunity to work on meaningful technology that directly impacts patient care and critical healthcare services across the organisation. In this role, you will influence cloud strategy and play a key role in designing and automating modern cloud platforms, improving reliability and connectivity, and empowering development teams through platform capabilities, Infrastructure as Code and engineering best practices. Working within a collaborative and forward-thinking technology team, you'll have the autonomy to drive continuous improvement, solve complex technical challenges and help shape the future state of cloud services, all while ensuring compliance with enterprise security, governance and operational requirements. Above all, people will be at the core of everything you do, committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.
Responsibilities
Design, implement and support scalable, secure and resilient Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments, including landing zones, networking, identity, governance and connectivity architectures.
Design and operate Google Cloud networking solutions, including VPCs, Shared VPCs, Cloud Router, Cloud VPN, Cloud Interconnect, peering, BGP routing and hybrid connectivity; troubleshoot network performance and connectivity issues.
Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, supported by modern source control, automation and configuration management practices.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated testing processes to improve the reliability, consistency and speed of cloud deployments.
Implement and maintain cloud security controls, including IAM, KMS, secrets management, policy-as-code, CSPM tooling and governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with organisational and regulatory requirements.
Configure and support observability platforms, including monitoring, logging, alerting and incident response capabilities using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpManager.
Monitor cloud utilisation and expenditure, recommending optimisation opportunities through rightsizing,



committed-use discounts and cost governance practices.
Create and maintain technical standards, reference architectures, runbooks and operational documentation to support platform consistency and knowledge sharing.
Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, reviewing cloud architecture designs and supporting application migration and modernisation initiatives.
Collaborate with infrastructure, security and application teams to deliver cloud-native and hybrid architectures aligned with business and technical requirements.
Participate in Infrastructure on-call rotations, lead cloud-related incident response activities and perform root cause analysis (RCA) to drive continual service improvement.
Qualifications and Experience
The successful candidate will hold a tertiary qualification in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or demonstrate equivalent industry experience.
You will bring a minimum of five years' hands‐on cloud engineering experience, including strong practical expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or other leading public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
A solid understanding of cloud architecture, platform operations, and modern engineering practices is essential.
To be successful in this role, you will have a proven track record of delivering cloud platform support, cloud migration initiatives, and hybrid connectivity solutions within complex enterprise environments.
You will possess strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation, with the ability to design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient cloud platforms.
Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise workloads and driving continuous improvement through automation and best practices will be highly regarded.
Job Location
This role can be based in either our Perth (Kings Square) office or our Melbourne (Collins Street) office.
Eligibility and Visa Requirements
Candidates must be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident,



or hold a valid Australian visa that provides full and unrestricted working rights for the duration of the appointment.
Salary and Working Conditions
We can offer you Salary: $128,830 to $143,125 per annum, plus 12% superannuation Permanent, full‐time opportunity working 76 hours per fortnight. This position can be based at our Perth CBD office or Melbourne CBD. 40% working from home arrangement available.
Benefits
Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as: Novated leasing work related expenses self‐education and additional superannuation
A healthy work‐life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave and well‐being programs
Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Contact
For enquiries, please contact Jon English, Senior Systems Engineer, on .
Additional Information
If suitable applicants are identified advertisement may close prior to listed date and screening/interviews may commence throughout the advertising process.
Diversity and Inclusion
St John of God Health Care embraces diversity and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing a secure environment for all children and vulnerable people in our care and proactively take measures to protect children/vulnerable people from abuse.
Culture
At St John of God Health Care we support you to be the best health care professional or support worker you can be. We believe positive culture drives performance, so we are focussed on building collaborative and supportive team environments, providing opportunities for development and promotion, and ensuring our leaders are visible and accessible. As one of the largest Catholic providers of health care services in Australia, St John of God Health Care is a great place to work with a host of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, and a great work life balance. Our caregivers come from diverse backgrounds and belief systems and you don't need to be Catholic to work with us.
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📌 Google Cloud Platform Engineer (Melbourne)
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