We're looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join a high performing technology team delivering critical cloud platform capabilities within a leading financial services organisation.

This role is ideal for a Cloud Platform Engineer rather than a Data Engineer. You'll be responsible for building, automating and optimising cloud platforms that enable scalable, secure and resilient solutions across modern cloud environments.

As a Platform Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, building and enhancing cloud platforms while driving automation, reliability and continuous improvement. You'll work closely with engineering, architecture and product teams to deliver enterprise-scale platform solutions that support business-critical workloads.

You'll contribute to long-term platform strategy while ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient and built using up-to-date engineering practices.

We're looking for someone with strong cloud engineering experience who can operate in complex enterprise environments.

- 8+ years' experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering or DevOps within large enterprise environments.
- Strong Python scripting skills.
- Hands-on Terraform experience (essential).
- Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and deployment tools such as Helm or Kustomize.
- Linux administration and automation using tools such as Ansible or Puppet.
- Experience working with cloud services across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
- Understanding of cloud security, governance and operational best practices.
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments.





We're looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join a high performing technology team delivering critical cloud platform capabilities within a leading financial services organisation.

This role is ideal for a Cloud Platform Engineer rather than a Data Engineer. You'll be responsible for building, automating and optimising cloud platforms that enable scalable, secure and resilient solutions across modern cloud environments.

As a Platform Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, building and enhancing cloud platforms while driving automation, reliability and continuous improvement. You'll work closely with engineering, architecture and product teams to deliver enterprise-scale platform solutions that support business-critical workloads.

You'll contribute to long-term platform strategy while ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient and built using modern engineering practices.

We're looking for someone with strong cloud engineering experience who can operate in complex enterprise environments.

Essential experience:

- 8+ years' experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering or DevOps within large enterprise environments.
- Strong AWS cloud experience.
- Strong Python scripting skills.
- Hands-on Terraform experience (essential).
- Hands-on Databricks experience (essential).
- Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and deployment tools such as Helm or Kustomize.
- Linux administration and automation using tools such as Ansible or Puppet.
- Experience working with cloud services across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
- Understanding of cloud security, governance and operational best practices.
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments.

If you're an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer with strong Terraform and Databricks expertise looking for your next contract opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.

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📌 Platform Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 Hawksworth Consulting
📍 Melbourne