Take hold of a monster opportunity and join Australian Retirement Trust as our Platform Engineer - Beam. You'll help shape the future of our B2B and software partner digital products by building and enhancing an internal developer platform that improves engineering experience, streamlines software delivery, and enables scalable, secure solutions.

Description
We're all about helping our members make the most of their money. And while they go after their goals, you can too. As a Platform Engineer - Beam, you'll play a critical role in supporting our B2B and software partner digital product suite. You'll help drive platform excellence by creating and maintaining automation, improving developer workflows, and ensuring our application infrastructure is secure, reliable, scalable, and high performing.

You'll collaborate closely with software engineers, product teams, and stakeholders across the business to design and implement reusable cloud-based solutions that align with enterprise standards and architectural principles. You'll also use your technical expertise to troubleshoot complex issues, identify opportunities for optimisation, and contribute to the evolution of our Platform Engineering and DevOps practices.

This role is a permanent opportunity, and our preference is for this role to be based in Brisbane. We are also open to candidates based in Sydney or Melbourne.

Responsibilities
Day to day, you'll:

- Create and maintain scalable, secure and resilient DevOps solutions that support software delivery.
- Design and enhance internal developer platforms, self-service tools and automated workflows.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and infrastructure as code solutions.
- Configure and support cloud infrastructure, databases, servers and application services.
- Monitor platform performance, reliability and security and proactively implement improvements.




- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and work with engineering teams to deliver sustainable solutions.
- Develop and maintain technical standards, documentation and operational processes.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to manage dependencies and deliver platform enhancements.
- Contribute to enterprise Platform Engineering and DevOps communities of practice.
- Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies and creative ways of working.

Qualifications
It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

- You have proven experience as a Platform Engineer with a strong focus on deployment automation and developer experience.
- Your expertise includes Terraform or similar infrastructure as code tooling.
- You're experienced working with Azure infrastructure and cloud services.
- You have strong scripting capabilities and experience working with automation frameworks.
- Your understanding of REST APIs, microservices and serverless architectures is well developed.
- You'll bring strong debugging, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- You're knowledgeable in cloud networking, security principles and operational best practices.
- You have experience collaborating with cross-functional delivery teams.
- You'll be familiar with monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Grafana or Datadog.




- You're comfortable working within Agile delivery environments and modern software development practices.

About us
Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of around $375 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you'll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.
Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now.

Applications close Sunday, 13 September 2026.

We don't want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you'll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you've made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us - and recruitment is no different.

Why join us
Bring your potential to Australian Retirement Trust and unleash our monster possibilities:

- You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
- Build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
- Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
- In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

We use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to support parts of our recruitment process - such as reviewing applications, supporting screening interviews, reference checking, and matching skills to roles. All final hiring decisions are made by people.

By applying, you agree to the use of these technologies as part of the recruitment process.

📌 Platform Engineer - Beam (Brisbane)
🏢 Australian Retirement Trust
📍 Brisbane