Job Description

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- Join one of Australia's largest comparison platforms
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- Cutting edge technology environment
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- Flexible hybrid working
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About Compare Club

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At Compare Club, we exist to help everyday Australians save money on household expenses—from health and life insurance to energy and home loans. With a 500+ robust team across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and internationally, our platform powers smart comparison services that deliver real peace of mind.

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We are fast-paced, tech-driven, and heavily investing in cutting-edge automation and AI across our entire ecosystem.

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About the Role

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We are seeking a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to serve as the definitive technical authority for Compare Club's cloud infrastructure. Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, Architecture and DevOps, this is a deeply hands‐on technical leadership position (not a people management desk job).

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You will spend the vast majority of your time building, automating, and engineering, while setting technical direction for, and mentoring, two experienced DevOps engineers based in Vietnam.

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You will step into a platform mid‐transformation: spanning a modern Terraform‐managed ECS/Fargate environment alongside a legacy Elastic Beanstalk estate. You will own the architecture, finish the modernisation, eliminate key‐person risk, and establish true operational and cost discipline—all under live ISO 27001:2022 and PCI DSS v4.0.1 certifications.

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What You'll Own:

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- Architecture & Technical Authority: Chair the weekly platform review, set engineering standards,



join the Architecture Review Board, and sign off on all AWS/GCP architecture and shared Terraform modules.
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- Platform Modernisation & Delivery: Complete the delivery migration to GitHub Actions and GitOps‐driven ECS releases, bring legacy Elastic Beanstalk under Terraform control, and retire end‐of‐life operating systems and runtimes.
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- AI & Operational Automation: Write Python and Bash to eliminate manual toil, track DORA metrics (via DX), and deploy AI/agentic automation for self‐healing remediation and intelligent incident triage.
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- Security and compliance engineering: Partner with Cyber Security and IT Risk to keep our ISO 27001 and PCI DSS controls strong as the platform evolves.
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- Cost & Observability Discipline: Consolidate logging/alerting across New Relic, CloudWatch, and Grafana; establish SLOs; and drive FinOps practices (containment of GPU/AI inference costs, right‐sizing).
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- Team Leadership & Key‐Person Risk: Become a credible second pair of hands across all production domains, cross‐train your Vietnam‐based team, and design a reliable on‐call rotation once runbooks and alerting are mature.
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What You Bring:

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- 8+ Years in Infrastructure / DevOps / Platform Engineering: Deep, current, production‐grade AWS experience (ECS on EC2/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora, ElastiCache, CloudFront, WAF, Route 53, IAM). Note: We run ECS, not Kubernetes!
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- Infrastructure as Code at Scale: Expert Terraform skills (shared module libraries, remote state, drift detection, Chekhov scanning).
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- Modern CI/CD & Delivery: Strong command of GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, OIDC federation, GitOps, and blue/green release strategies.
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- DevSecOps in Regulated Environments: Proven background operating under formal frameworks like PCI DSS, ISO 27001, APRA CPS 234, or Essential Eight.
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- Automation & AI Enthusiasm: Strong Python, Bash, and SQL scripting. A genuine desire to bring AI and agentic automation into daily platform operations and support AI workloads (AWS Bedrock, SageMaker).
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- Leadership by Credibility: Ability to mentor distributed engineers, write documentation people actually read, and hold straight‐shooting conversations with senior stakeholders about risk, cost, and trade‐offs.
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Why Join Us?

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- Real Ownership: Design authority here is real and written into the role — you set the standards and you sign off the architecture.
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- Tech‐Forward Stack: Work with modern AWS services, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and cutting‐edge AI platform foundations.
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- Great Culture: Work alongside high‐performing, collaborative teams in a fast‐growing financial services environment.
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📌 Lead Cloud Platform Engineer (New South Wales)
🏢 Compare Club
📍 New South Wales