We are seeking an experienced EL2 Principal Platform Engineer to lead complex platform engineering initiatives within a major Federal Government setting.

This role will focus on building secure, scalable and reusable cloud platform capabilities across AWS and Azure, improving developer self-service and establishing engineering standards that support reliable technology delivery.

- Initial 12-month contract with a further 12-month extension option
- Open market hourly rates
- Locations available in Melbourne (Richmond), Geelong, Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney or Perth
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Australian citizenship is mandatory
- Candidates must be able to obtain an NV1 security clearance

Key Responsibilities

- Design, build and continuously improve secure, reusable cloud platform services across AWS and Azure.
- Establish platform standards, golden paths, templates, guardrails and automated delivery patterns.
- Lead platform roadmap planning, governance, reference architecture and lifecycle management.
- Improve developer experience through internal developer platforms, self-service capabilities, clear documentation and reusable engineering patterns.
- Embed automated security controls, vulnerability management, policy-as-code and compliance checks across platform services.
- Improve platform reliability through observability, monitoring, alerting,



incident response and service health practices.
- Partner with delivery, architecture, security and operations teams to resolve complex issues and promote consistent platform engineering practices.
- Support critical services through participation in after-hours on-call arrangements.

About You

- Extensive experience designing, implementing and operating secure, scalable platforms across AWS and Azure.
- Deep expertise in containerisation, Kubernetes and orchestration technologies.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform, along with CI/CD automation and standardised engineering toolchains.
- Experience with tools such as GitLab, GitHub, Artifactory and Jira.
- Strong knowledge of secure platform engineering, including automated testing, vulnerability management and compliance automation.
- Experience designing internal developer platforms, service mesh architectures and developer self-service capabilities.
- The ability to establish platform governance frameworks, engineering standards, reference architectures and operational controls.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, technical leadership and complex troubleshooting capabilities.

Experience with Backstage, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, HashiCorp Vault and enterprise observability practices will be highly regarded.

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📌 Principal Platform Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 Talent
📍 Melbourne