Job Description

This is a newly created role and your chance to shape platform engineering as a discipline at Nearmap from the ground up. You'll lead the shift from a traditional DevOps model to platform-as-a-product, building the golden paths, self-service tools, and reusable components that let our engineering teams ship independently, safely, and rapid.

Working within the Platform team, you'll design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability platforms our engineering teams rely on daily. You'll treat the platform as a product and engineering teams as your customers, owning initiatives end to end from design through to operation, and communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the business.

Think a heavily customised Kubernetes implementation that teams self-serve from instead of waiting months for manual provisioning, or an alerting system that plugs straight into Slack instead of every team building their own bespoke tooling. That is the kind of platform thinking this role is about.

What you'll do
Treat engineering teams as customers: gather requirements, triage platform requests, and feed recurring friction back into platform improvements
Build self-service capabilities,



golden paths, and reusable platform components that reduce ticket-driven work
Design, build, and maintain platform tooling and automation across the software development lifecycle
Use CI/CD platforms to automate infrastructure provisioning, builds, tests, and releases
Write and deploy Infrastructure as Code using Terraform as the standard for all platform changes
Maintain high availability of infrastructure and platform services, and improve monitoring and observability of production systems
Implement security controls as code, including IAM least-privilege, secrets management, and container image scanning
Influence and educate engineering teams on platform engineering practices and cloud infrastructure security
Participate in design reviews and architecture decisions

About you
You're an owner. You spot what's not working and fix it without waiting to be asked
You welcome collaboration and bring a positive attitude to a rapid-paced team
You communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical people
You're pragmatic, curious, and constantly improving your craft.

📌 Senior Platform Engineer Barangaroo
🏢 Nearmap
📍 Barangaroo